/home/<user>/.gvfs causing problems for rsync

[Johann Spies]

On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 10:16:45PM +1100, Karl Auer wrote:
> Did you try --ignore errors? Just for fun?

No I did not.  Will look at it.

> 
> I wonder what would happen if you tried it the other way around - run
> rsync on the remote?

It is a bit difficult because that would require a ssh connection to
root - something I am trying to avoid as far as I can.
> 
> Another option is simply to dismount any filesystems mounted into .gvfs
> before you do the backup; that would leave an ordinary directory.

Yes, I did that.  It requires me to stop gnome, do a backup and get
back to gnome again.  Unfortunately xfce does not offer all the
functionality that I can get in gnome  -  yet.  

Regards
Johann
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