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    From Martin Gregorie@21:1/5 to All on Tue Oct 4 16:43:02 2022
    Following an upgrade from Fedora 35 to 36 it appears that rsnapshot, which
    I have configured to take a nightly backup (more for fatfinger protection
    or sudden hard drive failure than for fire/theft/etc protection - for the latter I make a weekly backup immediately before doing a software update
    and keep the latter in a firesafe.

    Here's what the overnight backup should look like:

    - mount a USB drive (always connected to my house server)
    - do an rsnapshot backup run
    - unmount the usb drive

    However, post the F36 upgrade the overnight backup is is no longer being mounted and so the backup isn't happening. I'd been 'manually' mounting
    the backup drive (i.e. via a LABEL=xxxxx entry in /etc/fstab is as
    specified in the rsnapshot manual:

    LABEL=USB_SNAPSHOT /media/snapshot ext4 rw,noauto,users,exec,noatime 0 0

    And, as required by the rsnapshot manual at:

    https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/Rsnapshot#Mounting_an_External_USB_Drive

    and is the last non-blank line in /etc/fstab). The entry in /etc/fstab
    looks like this:

    LABEL=USB_SNAPSHOT /media/snapshot ext4 rw,noauto,users,exec,noatime 0 0

    and, again as specified, is the last non-blank line in /etc/fstab. The /media/snapshot directory also exists. However, any attempt to mount the
    USB drive always gets this response:

    # mount -L USB_SNAPSHOT
    mount: /media/snapshot: can't find LABEL=USB_SNAPSHOT.

    ... so I've obviously missed something important, but what?


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  • From Martin Gregorie@21:1/5 to Martin Gregorie on Tue Oct 4 16:46:27 2022
    On Tue, 4 Oct 2022 16:43:02 -0000 (UTC), Martin Gregorie wrote:

    Following an upgrade from Fedora 35 to 36 it appears that rsnapshot,
    which I have configured to take a nightly backup (more for fatfinger protection or sudden hard drive failure than for fire/theft/etc
    protection - for the latter I make a weekly backup immediately before
    doing a software update and keep the latter in a firesafe.

    Here's what the overnight backup should look like:

    - mount a USB drive (always connected to my house server)
    - do an rsnapshot backup run - unmount the usb drive

    However, post the F36 upgrade the overnight backup is is no longer being mounted and so the backup isn't happening. I'd been 'manually' mounting
    the backup drive (i.e. via a LABEL=xxxxx entry in /etc/fstab is as
    specified in the rsnapshot manual:

    LABEL=USB_SNAPSHOT /media/snapshot ext4 rw,noauto,users,exec,noatime 0 0

    And, as required by the rsnapshot manual at:

    https://wiki.amahi.org/index.php/
    Rsnapshot#Mounting_an_External_USB_Drive

    and is the last non-blank line in /etc/fstab). The entry in /etc/fstab
    looks like this:

    LABEL=USB_SNAPSHOT /media/snapshot ext4 rw,noauto,users,exec,noatime 0 0

    and, again as specified, is the last non-blank line in /etc/fstab. The /media/snapshot directory also exists. However, any attempt to mount the
    USB drive always gets this response:

    # mount -L USB_SNAPSHOT mount: /media/snapshot: can't find LABEL=USB_SNAPSHOT.

    ... so I've obviously missed something important, but what?

    Ignore my last - should not have posted it in r.a.s.



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    Gregorie | gregorie dot org

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