Cross post alert! => posted on gentoo and rsnapshot Gentoo linux kernel-2.6.14 rsnapshot-1.2.1-r1 rsync-2.6.6-r1
Failure of cp -al doesn't leave enough log info to id what is wrong. Some kind of failure happened from one day to the next: Dec 15 /bin/rm -rf /bk/rsnap/hourly.5/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.4/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.5/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.3/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.4/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.2/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.3/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.1/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.2/ /bin/cp -al /bk/rsnap/hourly.0/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.1/ /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --links --delete-excluded --stats \ --exclude-from=/mnt/pack/rc/rsnap_Reader_exclude /home/ \ /bk/rsnap/hourly.0/reader_home/ [...] No problems above.. =============================================== Now Dec 16 /bin/rm -rf /bk/rsnap/hourly.5/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.4/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.5/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.3/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.4/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.2/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.3/ mv /bk/rsnap/hourly.1/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.2/ /bin/cp -al /bk/rsnap/hourly.0/ /bk/rsnap/hourly.1/ /bin/cp: target `/bk/rsnap/hourly.1/' is not a directory: No such file or directory ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options: /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnap_Reader.conf hourly ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR: /bin/cp failed. Perhaps this is not GNU cp? ERROR: Error! cp_al("/bk/rsnap/hourly.0/", "/bk/rsnap/hourly.1/") ==================================== Well of coures hourly.1 is not present, it was just moved to hourly.2.. It is gnu cp and running cp -al hourly.0 hourly.1 there does work. hourly.0 is currently 1.9G, is that big enough to cause a timeout? I just can't spot a problem in the /bk directory... I have been doing lots of installing since it is a new install and being brought up to speed. I can't imagine what would have changed in gnu cp to cause this. More likely rsnaphot I guess but I see no traffic here like that. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list