Re: rsnapshot not creating hard links?

On 08/28/06 14:19, Matt Hansen wrote:
> I don't seem to have hard links at all:
> 
> /backup/hourly.2/ # ls
> alpha beta
> 
> /backup/hourly.0/ # ls
> alpha
> 
> The snapshots don't 'look like' full images.


Umm, that's not useful.  You need to something like:

ls -ali /backup/hourly.*/(some path to a file)

and send that output..

Eric


> On 8/28/06, *Eric Anderson* <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx 
> <mailto:anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote:
> 
>     On 08/28/06 14:02, Matt Hansen wrote:
>      > I just started using rsnapshot, but it's gone through a few hourly
>      > backups, and I'm not getting the results that I expected. From what I
>      > read, I'm supposed to have a hard link to every file in each of the
>      > hourly.0, hourly.1 , etc directories that points to the version
>     of the
>      > file that was there when the snapshot was taken.
>      >
>      > Instead, hourly.2 (the oldest at the moment) contains most of the
>     files
>      > (~180GB), and hourly.1 and hourly.0 each contain ~30GB of files.
>      > Overall, around 210GB of files are being backed up, and no more
>     than 1GB
>      > or so should have changed in between snapshots. In the hourly.0 and
>      > hourly.1 directories, there are no hard links to the previous copy of
>      > the files, and there are full copies of files that didn't change.
> 
>     I think you aren't looking at the data correctly, because it looks fine
>     to me.  When you look at the files, are you sure the files don't show a
>     link count of more than 1?
> 
>      > # rsnapshot du
>      > 31G     /backup/hourly.0/
>      > 29G     /backup/hourly.1/
>      > 182G    /backup/hourly.2/
>      > 241G    total
>      >
>      > # du -csh hourly.0/ hourly.1/ hourly.2/
>      > 35G     hourly.0/
>      > 29G     hourly.1/
>      > 182G    hourly.2/
>      > 244G    total
>      >
>      > # du -sh hourly.0/ hourly.1 / hourly.2/
>      > 35G     hourly.0/
>      > 30G     hourly.1/
>      > 211G    hourly.2/
>      >
>      > # cat /etc/rsnapshot.conf | grep '^[^#]'
>      > config_version  1.2
>      > snapshot_root   /backup/
>      > cmd_cp          /bin/cp
>      > cmd_rm          /bin/rm
>      > cmd_rsync       /usr/bin/rsync
>      > cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh
>      > cmd_logger      /usr/bin/logger
>      > cmd_du          /bin/du
>      > interval        hourly  4
>      > interval        daily   7
>      > interval        weekly  4
>      > link_dest       1
>      > verbose         2
>      > loglevel        3
>      > logfile /var/log/rsnapshot
>      > lockfile        /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
>      > backup  root@alpha :/home/       alpha/
>      > backup  root@alpha:/etc/        alpha/
>      > backup  root@alpha:/root/       alpha/
>      > backup  /home/                  beta/
>      >
>      > As you can see from the conf file, I'm backing files up from
>     alpha onto
>      > beta, and also from beta onto a separate hard drive on beta. It
>     seems to
>      > be making a full copy of the files on beta every time, and
>     failing to do
>      > something else correctly on alpha. Both machines have been on the
>     whole
>      > time. Can anyone provide some insight?
>      >
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>      > Matt Hansen
>      > Electrical Engineering and Physics at MTU
>      > Aerospace Enterprise - GNC Team Leader
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