Re: /bin/cp: erroneous trailing slash?

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 07:32:27AM +0200, Roman Zimmermann wrote:

> Recently I get some strange errors when I try to run my daily
> backup:
> 
> /bin/cp: target `/root/sicherung/.snapshots/daily.1/' is not a
> directory: No such file or directory
> ...
> ERROR: /bin/cp failed. Perhaps this is not GNU cp?
> ERROR: Error! cp_al("/root/sicherung/.snapshots/daily.0/",
> "/root/sicherung/.snapshots/daily.1/")

GNU cp recently changed its behaviour with regard to trailing slashes.
The solution is to either comment out cmd_cp in your config file, or to
upgrade to rsnapshot 1.2.9.

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