Re: [bu-users] backup /var/run fails, reports nothing to backup
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From: jack b. <by...@gm...> - 2006-09-05 18:48:25
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sorry for wasting your time on this now obvious problem it was all caused by the default Exclude Jack On 9/5/06, jack byers <by...@gm...> wrote: > > running bu as root trying to backup /var > mostly succeeds, but somehow failing completely to backup /var/run > > repeated attempts say nothing to to backup > [root@bootp ~]# /home/byers/pkg/bin/bu -d /rh8b /var/run > > Incremental: on > Backup directory: /rh8b > > No new or changed files to back up > > but /var/run still not there under /rh8b > [root@bootp var]# pwd > /rh8b/var > [root@bootp var]# ls > account crash db ftp lib lock named opt racoon tux yp > cache cvs empty gdm local log nis preserve spool www > [root@bootp var]# > > my parent dir /var/run exists and is populated > > the error msg of original bu of entire /var > seems to say why it failed, but i dont know what this means: > [root@bootp bu]# cat log.060905-2.errors > mk_parent_directories(): Error: Could not mkdir /rh8b/var. > File exists > [root@bootp bu]# > > am I missing something obvious? > what means 'files exists'? there is no ordinary file 'run' in /rh8b/var > > advice? > Jack > |