Backup and non-regular files

[helander]

I suddenly experienced problems at backup.
I found out that it was related to an application that created non-regular file entries (sockets) below /home/tc. When I performed a Backup it failed and as far as i could see the tar operation failed due to the socket entries. I then added the names of these non-regular files to /opt/.xfiletool.lst, but backup still tried to include these "files" in the backup set and tar continued to fail.

Could it be that backup only compares the contents of /opt/.xfiletool.lst against regular files and then fails to discover that these entries should be excluded?

In general the backup procedure should automatically discard any non-regular file, or ...?

Kind Regards

Lars

[roberts]

Ignoring sockets is addressed in v2.8.

[helander]

Ignoring sockets is addressed in v2.8.

Very good.

I discovered the problem on a 2.6 based system and just forgot to test if it was the same behavior on the most recent version. Sorry.

/Lars