I've got a system I upgraded FC2 => FC5 recently and I'm seeing some
strange problems. On this box I have /etc symlinked to /bak/etc.bak so I
can backup just one directory (/bak) to my backup server using rsnapshot.
My problem is, in order to backup /etc from the symlink I need to use
the --copy-dirlinks option in rsync. It works fine on other FC5 boxes,
but not this one, here is the error I get:
/usr/bin/rsync -av --delete --numeric-ids --relative
--delete-excluded \
--copy-dirlinks --stats --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh \
rsnapshot@noc6.hpcc.ercbroadband.org:/bak \
/archive/.testsnapshots/hourly.0/noc6/
rsync: on remote machine: -vlkogDtprR: unknown option
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1084)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) [receiver=2.6.8]
yet when I run this _without_ the copy-dirlinks parameter, it doesn't
give me an error (although it doesn't backup the /etc directory either.
I use rsnapshot to backup several ohter FC5 boxes and don't see this
error. Any thoughts what I might need to look at?
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Mark Haney
Sr. Systems Administrator
ERC Broadband
(828) 350-2415