Backup with rdiff from directory /var Falko, For your information: I gave also the command: rdiff-backup server1_backup::/var var This is what happens: mknod: `var/lib/named/dev/rdiff-backup.tmp.2312': Operation not permitted SpecialFileError lib/named/dev/null Error running ['mknod', 'var/lib/named/dev/rdiff-backup.tmp.2312', 'c', '1', '3'] mknod: `var/lib/named/dev/rdiff-backup.tmp.2313': Operation not permitted SpecialFileError lib/named/dev/random Error running ['mknod', 'var/lib/named/dev/rdiff-backup.tmp.2313', 'c', '1', '8'] UpdateError log/auth.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/rdiff-backup.tmp.2383 does not match source UpdateError log/daemon.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/rdiff-backup.tmp.2393 does not match source UpdateError log/httpd/ispconfig_access_log_2006_05_18 Updated mirror temp file var/log/httpd/rdiff-backup.tmp.2421 does not match source UpdateError log/mail.info Updated mirror temp file var/log/rdiff-backup.tmp.2438 does not match source UpdateError log/mail.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/rdiff-backup.tmp.2446 does not match source UpdateError log/munin/munin-graph.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/munin/rdiff-backup.tmp.2461 does not match source UpdateError log/munin/munin-html.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/munin/rdiff-backup.tmp.2469 does not match source UpdateError log/munin/munin-limits.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/munin/rdiff-backup.tmp.2477 does not match source UpdateError log/munin/munin-node.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/munin/rdiff-backup.tmp.2485 does not match source UpdateError log/munin/munin-update.log Updated mirror temp file var/log/munin/rdiff-backup.tmp.2493 does not match source UpdateError log/syslog Updated mirror temp file var/log/rdiff-backup.tmp.2528 does not match source When I gave the command: rdiff-backup server1_backup::/var/www www Everything goes fine. Is there no solution for me to backup the whole /var directory? Hans
There are some special files in your /var directory that cannot be backed up. You can try to back up /var and exclude /var/lib/named/dev etc., for example.
There's one question that I just can't figure out: would HowTo this still work if I have changed /etc/ssh/sshd_config to deny root login: PermitRootLogin no Thanks in advance.
