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Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Tue Apr 02, 2013 10:25 pm

If you run that on a machine that doesn't have nvidia graphics, you won't be able to get to a graphical session. The simple solution is to remove the thing that's telling the system to use the nvidia driver - either comment out the line in xorg.conf that says 'Driver nvidia' or else rename or remove the file. Then restart the display manager with a command like
Code:
/etc/init.d/gdm restart
(Replace gdm with the correct display manager if it's different.)

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Wed Apr 03, 2013 7:39 pm

Solved for the OP maybe but why it didn't work properly before is not. I can't see anything wrong with the original exclude_list.

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Thu Apr 04, 2013 1:34 am

Remember that nadir confirmed the same behavior I experienced. Would be interesting to know if making those changes would fix it for him too. As to why it made a difference . . . that's way above my pay grade . . . ;)

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:28 pm

When i discovered the same problem i wrote:
edited "/usr/lib/refractasnapshot/snapshot_exclude.list":
# Examples of things to exclude in order to keep the image small:
- /home/username/Downloads/*
- /home/*/Videos/*
Both excludes failed.


I for one am completely lost why it fails, when it works and anything else between earth and sky.

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Above i have used "edit" instead of "quote", so the original post i have made is lost in the universe. Let me try to find it in the backup and restore (Nope. Backup seems to be too old -last friday).

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Thu Apr 04, 2013 7:36 pm

The it must be the removal of the trailing slash that allowed it to work. Could you try:

- /home/username/Downloads*


That's what worked for me and would pinpoint the solution.

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:17 pm

We've had inconsistent results with the excludes before. i don't recall exactly what went wrong, but I added the stars even though they shouldn't need to be there. Everything to the right of the last slash should be excluded.

Like this:
blah/Downloads/
the contents of Downloads should be excluded, but the empty directory should exist.

Like this:
blah/Downloads
the directory itself should be excluded.

All this just to say that I'm confused, too.

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Thu Apr 04, 2013 9:53 pm

fsmithred wrote:Like this:
blah/Downloads/
the contents of Downloads should be excluded, but the empty directory should exist.

IIRC this was inconsistent. Worked on some not on the others. Maybe the amount of data in ~ was a factor?

fsmithred wrote:Like this:
blah/Downloads
the directory itself should be excluded.

Yes, this way there were no empty directories. I don't mind. Easy enough to recreate should a reinstall be needed.

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Thu Apr 04, 2013 10:20 pm

golinux wrote:The it must be the removal of the trailing slash that allowed it to work. Could you try:

- /home/username/Downloads*


That's what worked for me and would pinpoint the solution.

If it works for you i assume it will work in general.
The truth is that i ain't got much hope being able to figure it out, all that booting and running snapshot is very time-consuming, rsync is just weird at times, i will be out of town for a while (afk), i don't plan to use squeeze anymore and ... well: i would rather not.

Not saying i got no interest in the problem or simply want to ignore your interest But it seems hopeless to me (and don't seem to need it).
I had such a weird problem with rsync, and simply used a workaround (and it took me long enough to find a workaround).

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Fri Apr 05, 2013 3:47 am

nadir wrote:The truth is that i ain't got much hope being able to figure it out, all that booting and running snapshot is very time-consuming,

Tell me about it. Especially if things go pear shaped on my system over 200gb large. It would have been nice to have another confirmation but no biggie.

Re: [SOLVED] Squeeze snapshot

Sat Apr 06, 2013 1:16 am

For future snapshot "exclude_lists" use of the trailing "*" should probably be reviewed.. there seems no definitive mention of this in "man rsync" but it seems more clear on use (or not) of a trailing slash, depending if a directory or just it's contents are required to be processed..
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