[Rdiff-backup-bugs] [bug #30286] --exclude-other-filesystems wrongly excludes even mountpoint directory

[Carl Chenet]

URL:
  <http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?30286>

                 Summary: --exclude-other-filesystems wrongly excludes even
mountpoint directory
                 Project: rdiff-backup
            Submitted by: chaicareborn
            Submitted on: Mon 28 Jun 2010 11:11:48 PM GMT
                Category: None
                Severity: 3 - Normal
              Item Group: None
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any

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Details:

Hi,

One of the Debian users Daniel Reichelt <address@hidden> found out
this situation : 

This discussion on [1] brought up the issue.

rdiff-backup --exclude-other-file-systems even excludes the directory of the
mountpoint. This is both troublesome and wrong:
- restoring a system backup without /dev, /proc, /sys,  $(some others)
directories
  is nothing nice to think about...
- the empty mountpoint directory itself *is* part of the filesystem which is
being
  backed up.

The attached dpatch fixes this nicely. It originates from [2], written by
[3].

[1]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general/6442
[2]
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rdiff-backup.general/6452
[3] Jakob Unterwurzacher <address@hidden> 


Regards,
Daniel

Please have a look at the attached patch.

Bye,
Carl Chenet - Debian maintainer of the Rdiff-backup package.

Blog: http://carlchenet.wordpress.com
Identi.ca: http://identi.ca/carlchenet





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Date: Mon 28 Jun 2010 11:11:48 PM GMT  Name:
02_make_exclude-other-filesystems_include_the_mountpoint.dpatch  Size: 884B  
By: chaicareborn
Patch
<http://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/download.php?file_id=20846>

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