[rsnapshot-discuss] after upgrading to Debian Jessie excludes no longer work

[John Covici]

Hi. I am having a problem -- I use rsnapshot to backup my server to a
local external hd and before upgrading to Debian jessie everything
worked fine, now although the correct exclude statements are being
passed to rsync, they are not being obeyed, and so the rsync tried to
backup /proc, which of course will not work.

Anyone know what is happening here and could suggest a possible
solution?

Thanks in advance for any ideas.

[Christopher Barry]

On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:32:41 -0400

Post by John Covici
Hi. I am having a problem -- I use rsnapshot to backup my server to a
local external hd and before upgrading to Debian jessie everything
worked fine, now although the correct exclude statements are being
passed to rsync, they are not being obeyed, and so the rsync tried to
backup /proc, which of course will not work.
Anyone know what is happening here and could suggest a possible
solution?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I can tell you that I've been on Jessie for a year, and it's not that.
I run Debian sid, and actually I'm already on Stretch.

Maybe run:
apt-get --purge remove rsync rsnapshot && \
apt-get install rsnapshot rsync

then reconfigure and retry.

[John Covici]

Just tried that, no joy -- I do see in the log that rsync is getting
the correct options, like this
[02/Oct/2016:12:35:18] /usr/bin/rsync -avh --delete --numeric-ids
--relative --delete-excluded --no-whole-file --exclude='/proc/*'
--exclude='/sys/*' --exclude='/mnt/backup/*' --exclude='/mnt/misc/*'
--exclude='/mnt/misc2/*' --exclude='/var/lib/php5/*'
--exclude='/usr/tmp/*' --exclude='/tmp/*'
--exclude='/var/account/pacct' --exclude='/media/*'
--exclude='/var/spool/mqueue/*' --exclude='/mnt/cdrom/*'
--exclude='/run' --exclude='/var/lib/fail2ban/*'
--exclude='/dev/shm/*' --exclude='/var/spool/asterisk/msg-app/tts/*'
--exclude=mnt/backup/snapshot_root
/. /mnt/backup/snapshot_root/.sync/rsnapshot_backups/
but its trying to backup inside /proc.


On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:06:34 -0400,

Post by Christopher Barry
On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:32:41 -0400

Post by John Covici
Hi. I am having a problem -- I use rsnapshot to backup my server to a
local external hd and before upgrading to Debian jessie everything
worked fine, now although the correct exclude statements are being
passed to rsync, they are not being obeyed, and so the rsync tried to
backup /proc, which of course will not work.
Anyone know what is happening here and could suggest a possible
solution?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I can tell you that I've been on Jessie for a year, and it's not that.
I run Debian sid, and actually I'm already on Stretch.
apt-get --purge remove rsync rsnapshot && \
apt-get install rsnapshot rsync
then reconfigure and retry.
--
Regards,
Christopher

[David Keegel]

John,

It looks like there are extraneous single quotes before and after
the directories you want to exclude, for example
'/proc/*'
instead of
/proc/*
or
/proc/

I suggest you drop the "*" unless you specifically want to avoid
excluding files whose names start with ".", although I don't think
that is the cause of your problem here.

Perhaps you were previously using an old version of rsnapshot which
used a shell to execute rsync, rather than executing it directly.

Post by John Covici
Just tried that, no joy -- I do see in the log that rsync is getting
the correct options, like this
[02/Oct/2016:12:35:18] /usr/bin/rsync -avh --delete --numeric-ids
--relative --delete-excluded --no-whole-file --exclude='/proc/*'
--exclude='/sys/*' --exclude='/mnt/backup/*' --exclude='/mnt/misc/*'
--exclude='/mnt/misc2/*' --exclude='/var/lib/php5/*'
--exclude='/usr/tmp/*' --exclude='/tmp/*'
--exclude='/var/account/pacct' --exclude='/media/*'
--exclude='/var/spool/mqueue/*' --exclude='/mnt/cdrom/*'
--exclude='/run' --exclude='/var/lib/fail2ban/*'
--exclude='/dev/shm/*' --exclude='/var/spool/asterisk/msg-app/tts/*'
--exclude=mnt/backup/snapshot_root
/. /mnt/backup/snapshot_root/.sync/rsnapshot_backups/
but its trying to backup inside /proc.
On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 12:06:34 -0400,

Post by Christopher Barry
On Sun, 02 Oct 2016 10:32:41 -0400

Post by John Covici
Hi. I am having a problem -- I use rsnapshot to backup my server to a
local external hd and before upgrading to Debian jessie everything
worked fine, now although the correct exclude statements are being
passed to rsync, they are not being obeyed, and so the rsync tried to
backup /proc, which of course will not work.
Anyone know what is happening here and could suggest a possible
solution?
Thanks in advance for any ideas.

I can tell you that I've been on Jessie for a year, and it's not that.
I run Debian sid, and actually I'm already on Stretch.
apt-get --purge remove rsync rsnapshot && \
apt-get install rsnapshot rsync
then reconfigure and retry.
--
Regards,
Christopher

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How do
you spend it?
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