Hi listmates, I'm having a problem getting rsnapshot to do anything (running openSUSE 10.3). It runs and all that, but it fails to actually copy something to the destination. From what I can tell, I have configured everything the correct way and the command "rsnapshot configtest" also mentions all syntax is okay, although it does complain about a missing Lchown. I have tried to find Lchown, but rpm tells me that no package provides Lchown. It's also not in the repositories, AFAICT. When I issue the command to do perform a test backup, all I get is: echo 28716 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid When I issue the command to do a full backup, I get this: require Lchown Lchown module not found Setting locale to POSIX "C" echo 28718 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid The logfile says this: [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] require Lchown [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] Lchown module not found [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: started [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] Setting locale to POSIX "C" [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] echo 28718 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid [27/Aug/2008:09:10:22] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed successfully That's a nice and fast backup, but a bit...empty. :-) Here is my /etc/rsnapshot.conf (comments stripped) config_version 1.2 snapshot_root /mnt/backup/ no_create_root 1 cmd_cp /bin/cp cmd_rm /bin/rm cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh cmd_du /usr/bin/du cmd_rsnapshot_diff /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff cmd_preexec /etc/rsnapshotprescript <-- script mounts ext. USB cmd_postexec /etc/rsnapshotpostscript <-- script unmounts ext. USB interval daily 7 interval weekly 4 verbose 5 loglevel 5 logfile /var/log/rsnapshot lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid exclude .thumbnails/ exclude tmp/ exclude wget/ exclude *Trash* link_dest 1 sync_first 1 use_lazy_deletes 1 backup /home/joop/ magrathea/ backup /etc/ magrathea/ The pre and post scripts mount and unmount the external USB drive. When I run them separately, on the command line, they work so I don't believe they are the problem. I have turned on debug logging, but that doesn't tell me more than what I have shown you above. So, what do I need to do to get rsnapshot to actually get busy? Thanks for any help, Joop ------------------------------------------------------------ Dit bericht is gescand op virussen en andere gevaarlijke inhoud door MailScanner en lijkt schoon te zijn. Mailscanner door http://www.prosolit.nl Professional Solutions fot IT -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org