Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Empty directory trees not being backed up

[Toni Price]

Ben Escoto wrote:

> > > > > > Toni Price <address@hidden>
> > > > > > wrote the following on Sun, 01 Jan 2006 09:02:02 +0000
> > > > > >            
> > I have been a very happy user of rdiff-backup for about a year now. 
> > Recently though I noticed that certain directories are not in my backup. 
> > I did a 'diff -rq' on some of the source/backup directories and 
> > (although I haven't checked extensively) all the missing ones seem to be 
> > empty directory trees.
> >    
>
> All I can say is I don't see why rdiff-backup wouldn't back up empty
> directories.  I've never personally noticed this problem.  I'm not
> sure what to do unless you can isolate or reproduce the problem.
>
> Are you sure its a bug?  Maybe it's just some unexpected
> --include/--exclude interaction, or a permission problem?
>  

No - I'm not at all sure it's a bug! Though it seems very unlikely to me 
that it could be a permissions problem. The permissions on some of the 
missing directories look like this:

(...)
drwx------  2 tprice users 4096 Jan  9  2005 <...>
drwxr-xr-x  3 tprice users 4096 Jan  9  2005 <...>
drwxrwxrwx  2 tprice users 4096 May 28  2004 <...>
drwx------  5 tprice users 4096 Jan 27  2005 <...>
drwxr-xr-x  2 tprice users 4096 Jan 30  2005 <...>
drwxr-xr-x  2 tprice users 4096 Jan 30  2005 <...>
(...)

As far as includes and excludes are concerned, I wouldn't have guessed 
they were causing this but I'll try and do some testing to see if I can 
pinpoint anything.

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>
> > So I'm guessing this is a problem that came with upgrading to
> > 1.0.1. Perhaps it would be better for me to back out to 0.13.6? 
> > (Unfortunately the most recent versions are not yet available on
> > 64-bit Gentoo.) I tried searching Google & the rdiff-backup-user
> > archives but didn't come up with anything. If it would help, I can
> > post my rdiff-backup command or any other relevant information.
> >    
>
> 0.13.6 was the last development release before the stable 1.0.x
> series, so 1.0.1 is just 0.13.6 with bugfixes.  So it probably won't
> help if you downgrade.
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