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
CC: (none) => hc
Setting link_dest 1 in rsnapshot.conf make it work again.
Status: NEW => RESOLVEDResolution: (none) => FIXED