Hi, For the past few months, I've been using Rsnapshot to to do backups of /home and /etc to an external hard drive. It's worked well. However, this week, it's started thrashing the hard drive, and appears to be making a 50GB backup (that's the size of the source, so an incremental backup will be much less) go on and on. When the 500GB target drive is half full, I intervene and kill the rsync process. Below is part of the logfile from this evening, but it's not very informative. Can anyone suggest where I should look, please? [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: started [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] echo 12893 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] mv /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/ /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.1/ [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] mkdir -m 0755 -p /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/ [28/Jan/2009:18:00:01] /usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --exclude-from=/home/bob/bin/excludedfiles --link-dest=/media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.1/localhost/ /home /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/localhost/ [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 20 while processing /home/ [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /etc/ skipped due to rollback plan [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /usr/share/fonts/ skipped due to rollback plan [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] Rolling back "localhost/" [28/Jan/2009:20:12:14] /bin/rm -rf /media/VirtualMachines/Snapshots/daily.0/localhost/ [28/Jan/2009:20:12:22] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: rsnapshot was sent TERM signal... cleaning up [28/Jan/2009:20:12:22] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid -- Registered Linux User #463880 FSFE Member #1300 GPG-FP: A6C1 457C 6DBA B13E 5524 F703 D12A FB79 926B 994E openSUSE 11.1, Kernel 2.6.27.7-9-default, KDE 3.5.10 Intel Core2 Quad Q9400 2.66GHz, 4GB DDR RAM, nVidia GeForce 9200GS -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org