https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356558 User robin.listas@telefonica.net added comment https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=356558#c7 --- Comment #7 from Carlos Robinson <robin.listas@telefonica.net> 2008-02-29 06:55:00 MST --- Sorry for the delay. The mail says: ] The main issue is that he has ] sync_first 1 ] and he is trying to follow the rsnapshot howto for 1.2, which assumes ] sync_first=0 (actually that version of the HowTo was written before ] sync_first was implemented). I am not aware of any newer howto ] (for rsnapshot 1.3). The problem is that "sync_first 1" is what the file "/etc/rsnapshot.conf.default" has. Those settings mentioned there as wrong are precisely the default configuration settings as distributed with opensuse 10.3. I didn't change them. "link_dest 1" is also in the default config file. I now did the recommended change to "sync_first 0", and tried a test backup: doesn't work, either. See: nimrodel:~ # time rsnapshot -t daily echo 13694 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid mkdir -m 0755 -p /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/ /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded /home \ /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/nimrodel/ mkdir -m 0755 -p /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/ /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded /etc \ /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/mimrodel/ mkdir -m 0755 -p /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/ /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \ /usr/local /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/nimrodel/ touch /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/daily.0/ real 0m0.202s user 0m0.150s sys 0m0.040s There is nothing under "/mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot". I increase again verbosity level to "5", but there is nothing more. Nothing is written to "/var/log/rsnapshot", nor to the syslog. No directory was created: nimrodel:~ # l /mnt/usb/usb_sg60/rsnapshot/ total 0 drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 48 Jan 27 19:37 ./ drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 248 Jan 28 23:57 ../ I don't know what to try or do, since the howto is obviously wrong. For people that have used the program previously that might be ok, but for me, it is stumbling block. If I try a weekly backup, it says there is no daily one. As to try daily, hourly, etc... I would rather do backups when I please, and have them timestamped. But I don't know how to do that. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.novell.com/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are on the CC list for the bug.