Hi Reinhard, On Tue, 20 May 2008, Reinhard Tartler wrote:
> Tollef Fog Heen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Hi, > > > > it seems like boxbackup-client doesn't know how to ignore sockets and > > so I get lines in daemon log like: > > > > May 2 23:07:44 xoog Box Backup (bbackupd)[3512]: WARNING: Ignoring file of > > unknown type: /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5432 > > May 2 23:07:44 xoog Box Backup (bbackupd)[3512]: WARNING: Ignoring file of > > unknown type: /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433 > > > > This causes boxbackup-client to send email about «files not being > > backed up», which is quite annoying. ... > Now, as a workaround, you could of course add an explicit ignore in your > boxbackup configuration to work around this issue. I'm not sure if this > is the 'correct' way to solve this problem. TBH, I'd rather expect > boxbackup to 'more or less' silently ignore this. I'm therefore inclined > to change that line of code from BOX_WARNING to BOX_INFO. > > What do the boxbackup developers think of this? I'm not sure that it's a good idea to change the warning level. Other files that people might expect to be backed up, such as device nodes in /dev, are also not supported and I think we should warn users about this. However, I see zero value in backing up sockets, and I'd be quite happy to simply ignore them. Any objections? Cheers, Chris. -- _____ __ _ \ __/ / ,__(_)_ | Chris Wilson <0000 at qwirx.com> - Cambs UK | / (_/ ,\/ _/ /_ \ | Security/C/C++/Java/Ruby/Perl/SQL Developer | \ _/_/_/_//_/___/ | We are GNU : free your mind & your software |
