Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Jailed shell backup issue

[Warren Guy]

Steve Annessa wrote:
> I run:
>
> $RDIFFBACKUP --force -v6 --exclude-sockets --exclude-device-files 
> --exclude-fifos --exclude-filelist $EXCLD $SOURCE $DEST &> $LOGS
>
> $EXCLD contains basic directories that I don't want, /proc /mount 
> /special/place and so on.
>
> I just setup a few cPanel servers and have chosen to jail all users. The 
> backup is failing on the virtfs setup, it's hanging on the users jailed 
> proc and various sockets. What can I do to fix this? I don't think I can 
> create some kind of regex, there may be someone naming their directory 
> 'proc'.

Assuming the jailed /proc directory is in the same location in each 
jail, you can probably exclude something like:

  /jailhome/*/proc

Note that the wildcard pattern works with --exclude and 
--exclude-globbing-filelist, but not with --exclude-filelist

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