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I've been using rsnapshot to keep backups of many file that are often changed on a linux Mint system.

Mostly it works fine but lately I've had problems.

The users are using a multi user CAD CAM file sharing system and recently their files have been lost.

Rsnapshot to the rescue. Normally it stores files in /home/rsnapshot/<directory heirarchy>
but lately I have found the lost files are not in that directory but rather I am locating them in /var/cache/rsnapshot/dailyetc/blah

Does anyone know what is going on here. Rsnapshot is configured to store in /home/rsnapshot.

What is this cache file?

Quote:

Rsnapshot to the rescue. Normally it stores files in /home/rsnapshot/<directory heirarchy>
but lately I have found the lost files are not in that directory but rather I am locating them in /var/cache/rsnapshot/dailyetc/blah

Does anyone know what is going on here. Rsnapshot is configured to store in /home/rsnapshot.

What does your /etc/rsnapshot.conf file show? (snapshot_root)
Here's mine:

Code:

###########################

# SNAPSHOT ROOT DIRECTORY #

###########################



# All snapshots will be stored under this root directory.

#



#snapshot_root  /var/cache/rsnapshot/

snapshot_root /incr_backup/backups

Ummm I think somewhere along the line my rsnapshot.conf was "updated"

Thanks for pointing out the obvious for me.