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Hi folks !
First of all I've to thank you for this great backup tool

Few days ago I've reinstalled backuppc completely new, version 2.1.0 is running now.
Everything from the old installation has been erased, nothing has survived.
The clients are mixed > WinXP, SuSE9.0 & debian testing and unstable.
Regarding the WinXP-clients everything is running great using cygwin-rsync.

Regarding the linux clients I've a problem to solve.
I haven't had this problem with the old backuppc version, it started with the 2.1.0
I've checked and compared the new config scripts with the old ones but I can't figure out what's going wrong.
linux clients are handled by $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
I'm trying to back up the whole drive
$Conf{TarShareName} = '/';
Nevertheless only few directories are going to the backup.
I'm missing directories like /etc, /var, /home

Another strange thing is once I'm going to back up mounted drives combined with /
in an array ...
it'll cause empty directories, only.
No matter if I'm going to start an incr. or a full backup.

Do you've an idea what might going wrong ?

Perhaps I can't see the forest because there are to many trees

Thanks in advance



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Few days ago I've reinstalled backuppc completely new, version
2.1.0 is running now. Everything from the old installation has
been erased, nothing has survived.

I hope that was you choice: by default an upgrade should not
erase anything.

Regarding the linux clients I've a problem to solve.
I haven't had this problem with the old backuppc version, it started with the 2.1.0
I've checked and compared the new config scripts with the old ones but I can't figure out what's going wrong.
linux clients are handled by $Conf{XferMethod} = 'tar';
I'm trying to back up the whole drive
$Conf{TarShareName} = '/';
Nevertheless only few directories are going to the backup.
I'm missing directories like /etc, /var, /home

Please send the first few lines of the XferLOG file. I'd be curious to
see the exact command. Perhaps you have included the --one-file-system
argument to tar (although I can't imagine /etc would be a different file
system to /)? Either that, or it is some kind of permissions problem.

It recommend manually running the tar command (pipe the output into
tar tvf -) and see what files get included.

Another strange thing is once I'm going to back up mounted drives combined with /
in an array ...
it'll cause empty directories, only.
No matter if I'm going to start an incr. or a full backup.

Do you've an idea what might going wrong ?

Once again, you need to include the exact tar command being
executed. In this case, you should either just backup "/" without
--one-file-system, or if you specify each mount point then you
will definitely want to specify --one-file-system (this latter
alternative makes restoring easier). Are the drives automounted?
Perhaps the specific tar command doesn't trigger the automounter?

Craig


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