[PLUG] attempting to fix a rsync problem

Dale Snell ddsnell at frontier.com
Mon Dec 17 09:40:27 UTC 2012


On Sun, 16 Dec 2012 23:11:13 -0800
John Jason Jordan <johnxj at comcast.net> wrote:

> The .gvfs folder first appeared in Ubuntu several years ago. I know
> that because I got hit with the same thing on my laptop, and I haven't
> run Ubuntu on it for at least two years now.
> 
> In my case I was using rdiff-backup, rather than rsync. Eventually I
> figured out that a fresh install of Ubuntu would recreate the .gvfs
> folder, therefore there was no real need to back it up. I added it to
> my excludes file, rdiff-backup ignores it, and the backup completes
> without issue.
> 
> I also dimly recall that it was part of Gnome, not Ubuntu, but that
> memory is sketchy.

Yeah, it's part of Gnome; it's in Fedora, too.  I exclude it from my
backups and all is well.

--Dale

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