Re: error restoring Unix socket ... path too long to be stored properly

On 02/05/2021 23:02, Denis Corbin wrote:
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> On 02/05/2021 20:47, imschmeg wrote:
>> On Sun, 2 May 2021 14:01:54 -0400
>> imschmeg <[email protected]> wrote:

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> Another solution is to avoid saving sockets. If you have extended
> attributes available on your filesystem, you can flag all unix sockets
> with the specific EA "user.libdar_no_backup" then add --exclude-by-ea
> option to dar at backup time.
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> which could done this way:
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> find /some/path -type s -exec setfattr -n user.libdar_no_backup {} \;
> dar -R /some/path --exclude-by-ea -c backup ...
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> instead of "user.libdar_no_backup" you can use a different EA, see
> --exclude-by-ea description in man page for more details.
> 
> Cheers,
> Denis
>>

With versions 2.6.15 and 2.7.1 released today, you now have the -au
option that instructs dar to not restoring unix sockets. Hope it will help.

Cheers,
Denis
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