RE: [rdiff-backup-users] Filechange during backup

[Olav Langeland]

Hi,

maybe I should give some more details. Backupserver is Linux with LVM,
clients are FreeBSD with just straight /var, /local etc. mounted dirs.
rdiff-backup version is v0.12.7. I was hoping to backup /var and include
all current logs in that backuprun. 

-olav

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Neil [mailto:address@hidden 
> Sent: 7. januar 2005 11:56
> To: address@hidden
> Cc: Olav Langeland
> Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Filechange during backup
> 
> Hi,
> 
> one good workaround if you can is to use and lvm snapshot
> 
> you take a snapshot and back that up then remove the snapshot
> 
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/snapshotintro.html
> 
> Neil
> 
> On Friday 07 January 2005 10:31, Olav Langeland wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > from the rdiff-backup error policy:
> > "These are usually caused by a file being modified as 
> rdiff-backup is
> > processing it. The error log calls these UpdateErrors.
> > When this type of error occurs, rdiff-backup will pretend 
> that the file
> > is the same as it is in the destination directory. For an 
> incremental
> > backup, this means that no new increment will be written, 
> and the mirror
> > copy will not be updated."
> >
> > Found this out when I tried to backup web- and maillogs. 
> Any workaround
> > for it? Not counting rotating logs before backup or making 
> a separate
> > scp command for logfiles. I would be happy with something that makes
> > rdiff-backup ignore filesize changing during backup and 
> just copy the
> > file :)
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Regards
> > Olav Langeland
> >
> >
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