Re: [rdiff-backup-users] rdiff won't exclude files

[Ben Escoto]

On 07 Oct 2003 09:36:36 +0200 Klavs Klavsen <address@hidden> wrote:
> /usr/bin/nice /usr/bin/rdiff-backup --force --exclude-device-files
> --exclude-other-filesystems --exclude-filelist /root/exclfiles.txt /
> /backup/newroot
> 
> This is my exclfiles.txt:
> - /etc/lilo.conf
> - /etc/fstab
> - /var/tmp
> - /tmp
> - /usr/portage/distfiles
   ...
> which clearly means it's trying to write to my etc/fstab - although it
> shouldn't :(
> 
> What am I doing wrong? (btw. I made the files I didn't want overwritten,
> immutable - that's why it's dying ;)

Are you sure it's trying to write to your etc/fstab?  An excluded file
is equivalent to one that doesn't exist.  So rdiff-backup will try to
remove those excluded files from the mirror directory, which will fail
if you made those files immutable.  Perhaps you outsmarted yourself?


-- 
Ben Escoto

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