On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 16:53:26 -0500 "R. David Murray" <[email protected]> dijo:
>On Wed, 03 Feb 2010 12:01:23 -0800, John Jason Jordan ><[email protected]> wrote: >> which I can swap with the DVD drive. On this disk there is a folder >> "Full_system_backup_Jaunty." I created a new folder >> "Full_system_backup_Fedora" and then modified the script so it would >> write to the new folder. Other than changing the destination folder >> I made no other changes to the script. However, I also modified my >> rdiff_excludes.txt file by adding "- *.iso" and "- /home/jjj/Azureus >> Downloads/". > >I don't think changing the excludes will have made a difference, but >you could try deleting them just to check. > >From the looks of the traceback you posted, I suspect there's something >wrong with your destination folder. Although I don't really understand >the code in detail, it appears to me as though rdiff-backup is finding >an empty list of increments, something it apparently isn't prepared >to handle. > >I'm assuming you are getting one traceback for each command in your >bash file, if that isn't the case let me know :) > >I'd advise deleting your backup target directory and reinitializing it. Nailed it! I started by deleting the backup folder. When I ran the script I got the same errors, but it did recreate the folder before failing. The folder was empty. Then I decided to delete the additions that I made to the excludes list. While opening it I noticed that there was a file rdiff-backup-errors.txt. I opened it up and it referred to two of the additions that I had made to the excludes list. So I deleted only those entries in the excludes list, saved it, and ran the script. It is happily backing up as I write this. Yay! Now I just need to figure out how to exclude all files that end with .iso and .ISO. I have a lot of distro ISOs on my computer and it would be silly to back them up. My excludes list was: - /sys - /media - /mnt - /tmp - /proc - /home/jjj/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2/.gvfs - /home/jjj/.gvfs - /home/jjj/Azureus Downloads - /var/run/cups/cups.sock - /var/run/postgresql/.s.PGSQL.5433 - *.iso - *.ISO To get the script to run I had to delete the last two. Apparently my syntax is faulty, but I can't figure out how to do it. The instructions in the man page were written for someone smarter than me. Thanks again for the help! _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
