Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Trying to backup and restore root-partition...

[Ben Escoto]

On Thu, 06 Nov 2003 14:35:46 +0100 Oliver Kaltenecker <address@hidden> wrote:
> As you said I did the following:
> 
> # rdiff-backup --force --print-statistics --exclude-device-files 
> --restore-as-of now -v6 /mirror/client/wurzel client::/ > 
> /tmp/restore.log 2>&1
> 
> and got the following in /tmp/restore.log:
...
> Removing directory /boot
> Sending back exception [Errno 16] Device or resource busy: '/boot' 
...
>    File "/usr/lib/python2.2/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
> 658, in rmdir
>      self.conn.os.rmdir(self.path)

> It seems that /boot is the problem, but boot is not in 
> /mirror/client/wurzel as it is on a separate partition like srv. I 
> didn't mention that in my first posting to keep it simple and since all 
> other partitions mounted under / restored successfully I thought it 
> would be the same which one I take as example. The filesystem of the 
> client looks like that:
> 
> /dev/hda3 on / type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/hda2 on /boot type ext2 (rw)
> /dev/system/local on /local type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/system/opt on /opt type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/system/srv on /srv type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/system/tmp on /tmp type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/system/usr on /usr type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/system/var on /var type reiserfs (rw)
> /dev/system/work on /work type reiserfs (rw)
> 
> All partitions except / are backup/restored as /srv and cause no trouble.

Is there anything in /mirror/client/wurzel/boot?  If so, does

    rdiff-backup -r now -v6 /mirror/client/wurzel/boot client::/boot

work?  To get the rest, maybe you could try:

    ssh address@hidden umount /boot
    rdiff-backup -r now -v6 /mirror/client/wurzel/boot client::/

(I agree this is unnecessary, but I'm trying to figure out what the
problem is.)


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Ben Escoto

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