Hello list, I have the following problem for awhile now. A backup script is running on server Backup. Every night a complete backup of /home is made of server Server, using rsync over SSH. (rsync version 3.0.2 on Debian/Linux)
Now. There is one user, that has a NFS mount in his homedirectory on Server "/home/username/mnt". This user uses NFS to access his laptop's filesystem. At night the laptop is not connected, so the mountpoint is not accessible: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# mount 10.0.0.217:/Users/username/Development on /home/username/mnt/dev (nfs) To prevent errors with rsync, I exclude the directory, using this option: --exclude=/home/username/mnt However, even though I exclude this directory, rsync still attempts to access it: 2008/08/06 01:05:41 [23001] receiving file list 2008/08/06 01:27:44 [23001] rsync: readlink "/home/username/mnt/dev" failed: Operation timed out (60) 2008/08/06 01:34:57 [23001] IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion The manpage says that using the exclude option, will prevent it from traversing beneith an exclude-path. Since I exclude /home/username/mnt, howcome it times out on /home/username/mnt/dev? Is there a solution? Other than lazy-unmounting the NFS filesystem? -- Rob klein Gunnewiek BWSS B.V. Deventer (http://www.bwss.nl) Tel +(31) 0570-665140 Fax +(31) 0570-665141 -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html