[gentoo-server] rsnapshot problem

[Ben Munat]

Hello. Anyone using rsnapshot for backups? I posted this question on the 
rsnapshot list, but haven't gotten any response. Figured I'd give it a 
shot here.

I'm running rsnapshot 1.29 on a gentoo box, backing up a remote gentoo
server. I recently moved my server to a new machine. After switching the
domain name to point at the new machine, I found that files and
directories from the old machine are still in my daily.0 backup each
morning. They are mixed with the new files and directories.

My rsync_long_args are:

rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative \
--delete-excluded --ignore-errors


and I see these args in the log.

The backup does finish with warnings, but it almost always does... it's
hard to backup a mail directory tree without something changing! But,
ignore_errors is supposed to override that and delete anyway right?

Hoping someone can help because it looks like my old and new file
systems will remain intermingled forever at this rate... effectively
making the backup useless (or at least a major pain to restore).

I was thinking about deleting everything under the server's directory in
daily.0. That should pull everything fresh right? Sucks to have to pull
all the files again, but I'm not seeing any other way right now.

Thanks,

Ben
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