Re: Problems on rsnapshot.conf....

> erchache2000 wrote:
> > Hi i'm using these lines on rsnapshot.conf
> > 
> > backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/var/www/ sancho/
> > backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/home/    sancho/
> > 
> > 
> > And when test it from console with: #rsnapshot hourly
> > 
> > this appears
> > 
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
> > /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly
> > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > ERROR: /etc/rsnapshot.conf on line 176:
> > ERROR: backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/var/www/ sancho/
> > ERROR: /etc/rsnapshot.conf on line 177:
> > ERROR: backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/home/ sancho/
> > 
> > 
> > whay fails? :-S
> > 
> > I revise tabs, spaces and all....
> 
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 10:37:06AM -0700, Chris Petersen wrote:
> 
> You mean to say that you replaced all of the spaces with tabs?
> rsnapshot needs tabs; spaces will break the config.

Yes.  Almost certainly the problem is that the config file has spaces
between words.  The config file should be changed to have tabs between
words.

I expect rsnapshot would have produced the following output:

----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: /etc/rsnapshot.conf on line 176:
ERROR: backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/var/www/ sancho/
ERROR: /etc/rsnapshot.conf on line 177:
ERROR: backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/home/ sancho/
ERROR: ---------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Errors were found in /etc/rsnapshot.conf,
ERROR: rsnapshot can not continue. If you think an entry looks right, make
ERROR: sure you don't have spaces where only tabs should be.

So rsnapshot is trying to give you a good clue in the last two lines.

Since this was apparently not enough of a clue, I'll change rsnapshot
to tell the user specifically when they have used spaces but not tabs.

Would an error like this make it obvious (even to people who are not
native English speakers) what the problem is?

ERROR: /etc/rsnapshot.conf on line 176: missing tabs to separate words - change 
spaces to tabs.
ERROR: backup root@xxxxxxxxxxx:/var/www/ sancho/

(This error would only appear if the line had no tabs, but had a space.)

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