[GLLUG] rsnapshot

Caleb Cushing xenoterracide at gmail.com
Wed Aug 9 15:17:22 EDT 2006


my innitial problem seemed to be with a version incompatablility. howerver
rsnapshot is telling me that I cannot create a snapshot root on another
machine? I don't really want to create the backup on this machine? it takes
too much space. I'm trying to backup about 52GB and I only have a 160 GB HD,
my / partion is only 19GB and filled up the other night because I didn't
realise it was making a backup on my root partion. is there a way around
this?

On 8/8/06, Jeff Lawton <Jeff at idealso.com> wrote:
>
> Caleb,
>
> You would need to use rsync for your initial snapshot, or scp -a. You
> should be able to find docs on it. You should be able to use rsnapshot
> even for the original one. Are you current;y backing up from host to
> host? It looks like you are trying to rotate. You would use the rsync
> command, not the cp command.
>
> Jeff
>
> Caleb Cushing wrote:
> > I'm trying to backup my data using rsnapshot. how do you take the
> > first snapshot? everything I try is not working... only the test of
> > hourly seems to be working correctly which seems weird. but when I run
> > it it complains
> >
> > /bin/cp: target `/.snapshots/hourly.1/' is not a directory: No such
> > file or directory
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these
> > options:
> > /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly
> >
> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ERROR: /bin/cp failed. Perhaps this is not GNU cp?
> > ERROR: Error! cp_al("/.snapshots/hourly.0/", "/.snapshots/hourly.1/")
> >
> >
> >
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> Jeff Lawton
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