# ls -ali /backup/hourly.*/alpha/etc/crontab
17383651 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 616 Feb 14 2006 /backup/hourly.2/alpha/etc/crontab
# ls -ali /backup/hourly.*/beta/home/confuted/.viminfo
17384730 -rw------- 2 confuted users 1556 Aug 25 21:16 /backup/hourly.1/beta/home/confuted/.viminfo
17384730 -rw------- 2 confuted users 1556 Aug 25 21:16 /backup/hourly.2/beta/home/confuted/.viminfo
# ls -ali /backup/hourly.*/alpha/home/confuted/risk.txt
12846111 -rw-r--r-- 3 confuted users 274 May 1 09:29 /backup/hourly.0/alpha/home/confuted/risk.txt
12846111 -rw-r--r-- 3 confuted users 274 May 1 09:29 /backup/hourly.1/alpha/home/confuted/risk.txt
12846111 -rw-r--r-- 3 confuted users 274 May 1 09:29 /backup/hourly.2/alpha/home/confuted/risk.txt
So it seems that some files have gotten backed up correctly, while others have not. For example, in
hourly.1, there are no hard links to any files in alpha's /etc directory.
On 8/28/06, Eric Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> wrote: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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