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

[dean gaudet]

On Tue, 14 Jan 2003, Troels Arvin wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-01-13 at 19:02, dean gaudet
> <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> > rdiff-backup is attempting to create a socket in the mirror hierarchy to
> > be a place holder for the socket on the primary server.
>
> What's meant by "primary server"? - Is that the server being backed up?

yeah.

> > you can probably work around it by excluding the socket from your
> > backup...
>
> How do I find out which socket is causing the trouble?

this is where we complain to ben and say that the python tracebacks are
huge and don't contain useful information, such as the file the error is
occuring on :)  (or maybe i just can't find it amidst the mess of the
tracebacks)

> I know how to exclude device files during rdiff-backup operation, but I
> can't find a way to exclude sockets. Is there a way to do that?

using --exclude.

-dean