From ff17410cbee1492a5ca87869f76a2dafb7f90430 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Lars Wirzenius Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2021 20:19:15 +0200 Subject: feat: backup and restore named pipes (FIFOs) --- obnam.md | 6 +++++- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'obnam.md') diff --git a/obnam.md b/obnam.md index e386b17..240dcf0 100644 --- a/obnam.md +++ b/obnam.md @@ -1286,7 +1286,10 @@ then command fails ## Irregular files This scenario verifies that Obnam backs up and restores files that -aren't regular files or directories. +aren't regular files, directories, or symbolic links. Specifically, +Unix domain sockets and named pipes (FIFOs). However, block and +character device nodes are not tested, as that would require running +the test suite with `root` permissions and that would be awkward. ~~~scenario given an installed obnam @@ -1294,6 +1297,7 @@ and a running chunk server and a client config based on smoke.yaml and a file live/data.dat containing some random data and a Unix socket live/socket +and a named pipe live/pipe and a manifest of the directory live in live.yaml when I run obnam --config smoke.yaml backup when I invoke obnam --config smoke.yaml restore latest rest -- cgit v1.2.1