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From: Harry Putnam <reader@×××××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: [gentoo-dev] Re: current portage rsnapshot can eat your backups
Date: Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:27:03
Message-Id: 87zml0sm28.fsf@newsguy.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] current portage rsnapshot can eat your backups by "Bryan Østergaard"
1 Bryan "=?utf8?Q?=C3=98stergaard?=" <kloeri@g.o> writes:
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3 [...]
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5 >> The portage version of rsnapshot 1.2.1 (most recent) has a problem
6 >> with the newest gnu cp. It can cause rsnapshot to eat all your
7 >> carefully saved backups. This was discussed on rsnapshot list some
8 >> time ago:
9 >> http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?thread_id=8988105&forum_id=41320
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11 [...]
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13 >>
14 > Please file a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org so I can fix this. No, I
15 > don't accept bug reports on gentoo-dev ML :)
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17 Will do but I wanted this to be posted because anyone running
18 rsnapshot might lose some backups. What happens is the cp fails but
19 the rotation still occurs so after a few rotations all the hourlys are
20 deleted.
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22 Do you think this should be posted on the `user' list too?
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Re: [gentoo-dev] Re: current portage rsnapshot can eat your backups "Bryan Østergaard" <kloeri@g.o>