Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] Problems backing up to an external USB mounted drive

[Chris D. <ch...@ic...>]

I don't believe this is an rsnapshot problem, more a problem with my 
external drive, but since it involves rsnapshot would appreciate any 
pointers that anyone can provide.

Previously I have been backing up (2 instances spaced 1/2 hour apart 
with separate .conf files) with rsnapshot to an internal hard drive. All 
was good for several months.

Having obtained a new 1tb drive which was unused I decided to put it in 
an external usb 3 enclosure and switch my backups to the new drive.

I changed the two .conf files to direct the backups to the new drive.

Now nothing but problems.

The first manual backup seemed to complete both backups without issues.

Then on the cron instances of rsnapshot I received the following 
messages from cron :

08.55am - rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with 
these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
     /home/ccc/data/computer/scripts/cdappssetup/rsnapshot_root.conf alpha
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid exists and so does its process, 
can not continue

10.55am - the same as 08.55am.

12.55am - the same as 08.55am

13.06pm - rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with 
these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf alpha
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 11 while processing /home/
ERROR: Could not utime(time(), time(), 
"/home/external_usb/BAKUP_HOME/alpha.0/");

13.25pm - rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with 
these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.conf alpha
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Unable to create /home/external_usb/BAKUP_HOME/,
Please make sure you have the right permissions.

13.25pm - rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with 
these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -c \
     /home/ccc/data/computer/scripts/cdappssetup/rsnapshot_root.conf alpha
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Unable to create /home/external_usb/BAKUP_ROOT/,
Please make sure you have the right permissions.

At this point the external hard drive seemed to be constantly running 
and I decided to switch backups to the (still existing) internal hard 
drive locations. No further error messages.

Can anybody suggest what is going wrong with the external drive here?


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Chris Dunn