Backup home dirs on F9

Thomas Cameron thomas.cameron at camerontech.com
Thu Oct 16 03:45:08 UTC 2008


Tom Diehl wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I am having a problem backing up my homedir on my F9 box. When the backup
> software tries to read the .gvfs file system as root the software complains
> that it cannot read it. http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=534284
> says that this broken behavior is deliberate and will not be fixed.
> 
> So the question is, how are we supposed to backup the homedirs? I never 
> logout
> of this machine or reboot it unless I need to upgrade the kernel.
> 
> I know I can umount the .gvfs filesystem and the backups will complete 
> without
> a problem but I cannot find any documents stating how to remount the 
> .gvfs filesystem without logging out or even if it is necessary to 
> remount it.
> 
> Can anyone shed some light on this? This behavior is annoying at best.
> 
> Regards,
> 

Sorry to reply again.  Also, in the case of tar, you can do 
--ignore-failed-read so that tar will continue without bailing.

Thomas

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