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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