lofs filesystems and the find command

[Tim Nelson]

This description is really long and hopefully this abreviated part make sense.
The backup scripts that I have created use the find command which then pipes to cpio. Recently I have been working on some mirror split backups which have a fail over that if there is no mirror or a failure the script will mount the filesystem as lofs and continue. The find command I use is " find ./DIR_NAME -xdev |cpio -omvB >> /dev/Tapedrive ". The -xdev makes sure I do not cross mount points as I have the filesystems each being backed up with separate commands in parallel. This works great on regular filesytems but when I run the find command in an lofs it will not cross any "directory" in the filesystem. It is qualifying each directory in an lofs filesystem as a mount point and the -xdev will not let the find cross it. If I use find ./DIR_NAME/* then the directories are expanded but then I loose the -xdev on my other normal filesystems. ( this is long ) Ultimately I need to use the same command no matter what kind of filesystem it is so I can stay dynamic.
Any ideas ??? Thanks !

[Antoanetta Naghiu · Accepted solution]

Did you try -local or -fsonly or -prune your nfs mount points (in combination)?.
e.g. find / ! -local -prune -print

[Antoanetta Naghiu]

Did you try -local or -fsonly or -prune your nfs mount points (in combination).
e.g. find / ! -local -prune -print

[rajsri]

Hi
I dont know whether its possible or not ,
but why dont you try fbackup with -l option which backus up lofs filesystems as well.