Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Socket error: AF_UNIX path too long

[Andrew Ferguson]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> I get this (bizarre and confusing) error every single time I try to back 
> up a Unix socket. I don't even want to back up these sockets, or 
> understand what sense it would make, since they are created by and tied to 
> a running application, and restoring them without the application would 
> not be possible or useful. So I don't understand why rdiff-backup doesn't 
> silently ignore them. I end up having to exclude them from my backups, one 
> by one, to shut up the error.

You can have rdiff-backup exclude all sockets by adding
--exclude-sockets to the command line.

Andrew

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