Bug 375212

Summary:	Yast2 System Backup does not exclude /mnt by default
Product:	[openSUSE] openSUSE 10.3	Reporter:	Carlos Lange <carlosflange>
Component:	YaST2	Assignee:	Lukas Ocilka <locilka>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED	QA Contact:	Jiri Srain <jsrain>
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 - None
Version:	Final
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Hardware:	x86
OS:	openSUSE 10.3
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Description Carlos Lange 2008-03-29 19:53:05 UTC

I usually add the directories /usr/local and /home to the default list of exclusions to create system-backups in my openSUSE machines, because I know those directories have huge amount of data that can easily be reinstalled or are backed up otherwise. I noticed that /media is included in the default exclusion list, which makes sense, but /mnt is not included. When I purchased a NAS for large scratch files and backup and mounted it under /mnt the backup process filled my system partition (containing /tmp) trying to backup the whole NAS.

I think that /mnt should be included in the default list of exclusions, since by definition it contains data not physically within the machine (same as with /media) and potentially much larger than the physical disk space. Because of the risk associated I feel this would be rather a bug than an enhancement.

Comment 1 Lukas Ocilka 2008-04-07 08:36:55 UTC

This is actually something between bug and enhancement. Directory /mnt should be backed-up because (by default) media attached under /mnt contain file-systems excluded by default. Rather a NAS should be ignored thant /mnt (by defalt).

Comment 2 Lukas Ocilka 2008-04-07 08:51:45 UTC

- Excluding /mnt by default (#375212).
- yast2-backup-2.16.4

(sounds better as we already exclude /media)

Comment 3 Carlos Lange 2008-04-07 13:18:46 UTC

(In reply to comment #2 from Lukas Ocilka)
> (sounds better as we already exclude /media)

So I thought, too. Thanks.