Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] Backing up smbmount-ed directory error

[jonlists <jon...@cb...>]

We're doing something similiar, but not using drive shares on windows. I 
set up cwrsync on the Windows box, and push the windows box to a location 
on a linux box, then move that to the snapshot drives. Created a script on 
windows, then set up the cwrysnc command to run as a scheduled tasks. 

Windows does many more weird things about file locks and open files than 
linux, so I thought rsync would be a better choice. Plus, not having a 
drive share means that users never see it, data that is dumped there isn't 
exposed. 

So far it works pretty well. 

Jon Johnston
Creative Business Solutions
IBM,Microsoft, Novell/Suse, Sophos Consultants
http://www.cbsol.com
952-544-1108 
Blog: http://bingo.cbsol.com

rsn...@li... wrote on 10/08/2004 08:44:34 
AM:

> 
> Hello
> I am using rnapshot to backup a windows machine (in addition to several 
linux 
> boxes). I share the directory needs to be backed up in Windows, and use 
> smbmount to mount it in the linux server running rsnapshot. However,when 
for 
> somereason the Windows machine is not reachable (being shut down, 
problem 
> with its getting IP from dhcp), rsnapshot failed to run at all with 
error:
> 
> ERROR: /etc/rsnapshot.conf on line 160: backup          /mnt/win/  
> m87/win - Source directory "/mnt/win/" doesn't exist
> ERROR: 
---------------------------------------------------------------------
> ERROR: Errors were found in /etc/rsnapshot.conf, rsnapshot can not 
continue.
> ERROR: If you think an entry looks right, make sure you don't have
> ERROR: spaces where only tabs should be.
> 
> I know that in the case the Win machine is not reachable, the 
smbmount-ed 
> directory /mnt/win would cause some sort of IO error (even "ls" can't 
open 
> it). But I am just wondering if rsnapshot could be made more graceful in 

> handling this, like just ignore that directory for this run and keep 
running 
> the rest of the backup.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> RDB
> 
> -- 
> Reuben D. Budiardja
> Dept. Physics and Astronomy
> University of Tennesse, Knoxville, TN
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