According to the log files, it is probably dying out on the system command:
/bin/cp -al /home/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/ /home/backup/rsnapshot/daily.1/ Can someone with root do an strace on this command, when run manually, and dump it to /tmp for further diagnostics? It would probably look something like this (except having the destination go to /home/backup/testing so that we don't mess up rsnapshot's directory). strace /bin/cp -al /home/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/ /home/backup/testing 2>&1 > /tmp/strace.out Adam Chlipala wrote: >rsnapshot, the tool that we use for automatic on-disk backup, has >stopped working in the last few days. You can see the high-level >picture of what is going wrong in /var/log/rsnapshot.log. /bin/cp fails >during a large copying job. When I run it manually, it terminates with >errors like: > >/bin/cp: cannot access >`/home/backup/rsnapshot/daily.0/localhost/home/someone/somefile': Cannot >allocate memory >/bin/cp: memory exhausted > >Does anyone knowledgeable about such things know if there is some way we >can fix this? It might be related to our use of ulimits. > >_______________________________________________ >Hcoop-discuss mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss > > _______________________________________________ Hcoop-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://hcoop.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/hcoop-discuss
