Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Long path problem

[Randall Nortman]

On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 08:52:30PM -0600, Ben Escoto wrote:
[...]
> So anyway, I'm curious when/how the long-path-problem is coming up.  I
> wish rdiff-backup could successfully mirror all the files in this
> case, but don't see a way of doing this that's not error-prone.
> (Treating them the same way as long filename files and sticking them
> in a separate directory would be a bit easier.)

This was my most recent error along these lines:

SpecialFileError
var/lib/apache/fastcgi/80292d047b4ad9c7faad6b676c4fe423 Socket
error: AF_UNIX path too long

I get these every now and then.  Presumably these are temporary files
(sockets, actually, in this case) being created and destroyed rapidly,
and so I only see the error when the planets align and the backup
coincides with the temporary file.  I don't worry about it in this
case.  I don't recall ever seeing it on non-socket files for that
matter.  Now that I think about it, shouldn't rdiff-backup be ignoring
sockets files?