Bug 6283

Summary: rsnapshot and cp(copy)
Product: Mageia Reporter: Henrik Christiansen <hc>
Component: RPM PackagesAssignee: Mageia Bug Squad <bugsquad>
Status: RESOLVED FIXED QA Contact:
Severity: normal    
Priority: Normal CC: hc
Version: 2   
Target Milestone: ---   
Hardware: i586   
OS: Linux   
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Description Henrik Christiansen 2012-06-01 21:57:17 CEST
rsnapshot was working on mageia 1, but after a fresh install of mageia 2 from the live cd, rsnapshot backups fails.
The first backup is ok but all after that produce this error:

[01/Jun/2012:06:11:37] /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly: started
[01/Jun/2012:06:11:37] echo 2810 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[01/Jun/2012:06:11:37] /media/backup/lone/weekly.3 not present (yet), nothing to copy
[01/Jun/2012:06:11:37] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[01/Jun/2012:06:11:37] /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly: completed successfully
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: started
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] echo 2911 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] mv /media/backup/lone/daily.5/ /media/backup/lone/daily.6/
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] mv /media/backup/lone/daily.4/ /media/backup/lone/daily.5/
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] mv /media/backup/lone/daily.3/ /media/backup/lone/daily.4/
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] mv /media/backup/lone/daily.2/ /media/backup/lone/daily.3/
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] mv /media/backup/lone/daily.1/ /media/backup/lone/daily.2/
[01/Jun/2012:06:12:59] /bin/cp -al /media/backup/lone/daily.0 /media/backup/lone/daily.1
[01/Jun/2012:06:16:18] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: /bin/cp -al /media/backup/lone/daily.0 /media/backup/lone/daily.1 failed (result 256, exit status 1).  Perhaps your cp does not support -al options?
[01/Jun/2012:06:16:18] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: Error! cp_al("/media/backup/lone/daily.0/", "/media/backup/lone/daily.1/")
[01/Jun/2012:06:16:18] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
Henrik Christiansen 2012-06-08 21:13:28 CEST

CC: (none) => hc

Comment 1 Henrik Christiansen 2012-06-08 23:37:03 CEST
Setting
link_dest 1
in rsnapshot.conf make it work again.

Status: NEW => RESOLVED
Resolution: (none) => FIXED