Description of problem: When trying to run rsnapshot on FC5 i get the following error. [root@marlin backup]# rsnapshot daily /bin/cp: angegebenes Ziel â/backup/daily.1/â ist kein Verzeichnis: Datei oder Verzeichnis nicht gefunden ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options: /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ERROR: /bin/cp failed. Perhaps this is not GNU cp? ERROR: Error! cp_al("/backup/daily.0/", "/backup/daily.1/") According to http://bugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=339845 this is fixed upstream. The attached Patch from above location fixes the problem for me. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 1.2.3-2.fc5
Created attachment 132095 [details] Patch for rsnapshot
1.2.9 is available in rawhide for testing, and fixes this bug. I'm not yet comfortable pushing it out to the stable branch, but will likely do so within a few weeks.