Re: [rdiff-backup-users] SpecialFileError...AF_UNIX path too long

[Thomas H. George]

Thomas H. George wrote:
> Ian Zimmerman wrote:
> > On Sat, 26 Oct 2013 14:39:45 -0400
> > "Thomas H. George"<address@hidden>  wrote:
> >
> > > An attempt to backup my desktop failed with the message:
> > > SpecialFileError /home/tom/.cache/keyring-Jw0E3d/control Socket error:
> > > AF_UNIX path too long
> > This doesn't answer your question directly, but you can
> > --exclude-sockets to skip all AF_UNIX socket files.  It doesn't make
> > much sense to back them up anyway, IMHO.
>
> I tried adding --exclude-sockets to the command line but it had no 
> effect, the backup again failed with the same SpecialFileError as above.
> >
Could it be that the SpecialFileErrors are unimportant?
> I found that the rdiif-backup program exited with 0 even tough while 
> it was running there were SpecialFileError messages and the listed 
> statistics reported 2 errors. Based on this finding I ran the program 
> again.  There had been no files added, changed or delelted and this 
> second run completed quickly reporting no errors
>
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