Re: [rsnapshot-discuss] backup point directive seems to be ignored

[<re...@ne...>]

Matt McCutchen <ma...@ma...> writes:

> On Sun, 2007-12-23 at 12:48 -0600, re...@ne... wrote:
>> For some reason the rsnapshot run will not backup `/home/reader' and I
>> haven't found the reason in the verbose output or log output...both
>> set to 5
>
>>   snapshot_root   /home/reader/projects/backup/rsync/home
>
>>   rsync_long_args --delete  --numeric-ids --links \
>>          --delete-excluded --stats
>>   backup  /home/  home_reader
>
> Sorry for not paying attention the first time.

Understandable you'd think it was the -n since I've been asking pretty
basic questions... it must be obvious my skill level is on the bottom
rung or below.  : )
  
> . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . I think rsnapshot is
> skipping /home/reader in an attempt to avoid copying the snapshot root
> into itself.

Yup moving it solved the problem but its interesting that rsnapshot
doesn't notice that the address it is backing up to is actually on a
completely different file system than /home.  ~/projects is a symlink
.. the real address is on a different file system.

Changing the address in rsnap*.conf to the real filesystem makes it
all work.  No actual moving of anything.

At verbose level 5 it seems there should have been a warning or some
indication as to why rsnapshot couldn't follow the directive.  It
appeared to just silently ignore /home/reader.  But I'm probably
missing something in the verbose output I posted at:

   http://www.jtan.com/~reader/rsnapout.txt

Thanks again for your input and time.  It's been very helpful