Re: [gentoo-dev] current portage rsnapshot can eat your backups

[Bryan Østergaard]

On Thu, Feb 09, 2006 at 07:08:45AM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>   From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
>   Subject: rsnapshot and cp bug
>   Newsgroups: gmane.linux.gentoo.devel
>   Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 08:54:02 -0600
>   Message-ID: <87zml44jxx.fsf@×××××××.com>
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> The portage version of rsnapshot 1.2.1 (most recent) has a problem
> with the newest gnu cp.  It can cause rsnapshot to eat all your
> carefully saved backups.  This was discussed on rsnapshot list some
> time ago:
>   http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8988105&forum_id=41320
>
> And more recently when rsnapshot ate all my backups.
>
> The newer version 1.2.2 does not have this problem.
> Maybe it should be hustled into portage.
>
> Or certain lines in the exiting version can be edited
> (explained the cited messages).
>
> Look for this message and subject on
> gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rsnapshot.general, for some of the
> discussion
>
>   From: reader@×××××××.com
>   Subject: rsnap failure in cp -al leads to deletion of all but one Hourly*
>   Newsgroups: gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.rsnapshot.general,
>    gmane.linux.gentoo.user
>   Cc: gentoo-user@g.o
>   Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 08:47:05 -0600
>   Message-ID: <87vexlta8m.fsf@×××××××.com>
>
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Please file a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org so I can fix this. No, I
don't accept bug reports on gentoo-dev ML :)

Regards,
Bryan Østergaard
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