Re: [Duplicity-talk] Backing up certain folders not working?

[Tim Riemenschneider]

Benjamin Dell schrieb:
> A bit of a noob question here, so apologies in advance. I have around
> 8 folders / files in my include list. All but one of these works. The
> one that doesnt is /var/mail - i.e. i want to backup the entire mail
> directory, and sub directory. Looking at the logs though, the
> backed-up file size is just 4k... am i doing something wrong, or is
> there a reason why it wont backup these files?
>
> Just to add a bit more meat to the bone, this is on a centos box,
> where dovecot and postfix are used for mail servers. Only thing i can
> think of is that the bulk of the files (and this sub-folders) in
> /var/mail use dot syntax, thus usually hidden. Could this be the reason?
>
> Thanks in advance :)
I don't know centos, but please check if /var/mail is really a
directory. (Several years ago I had a linux-box with DLD-Linux, there
/var/mail was a symlink to /var/spool/mail)
duplicity does not follow symlinks, so this could be the case here, too.

cu
Tim

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