ok, i guess what's happening is that it can't determine the snapshot information - any idea why this might be? [root@pinab-devel ~]# /etc/cron.hourly/stateless-replicator Mounting /dev/hda3 at /tmp/tmpkI23Bo/reserve_root (type ext3) Mounting /dev/hda1 at /tmp/tmpkI23Bo/reserve_boot (type ext3) Could not determine client snapshot information for reserve boot partition Provisioning data from server:(config "pinab", protocol "None", snapshot "pinab-8") Getting (config "pinab", protocol "None", snapshot "pinab-8") to device /dev/hda3 rsync url:"rsync://cms.porchlight.ca/stateless/pinab/pinab-8/" excluding /boot rsync finished role finished Getting (config "pinab", protocol "None", snapshot "pinab-8") to device /dev/hda1 rsync url:"rsync://cms.porchlight.ca/stateless/pinab/pinab-8/boot/" rsync finished role finished relabelling /dev/hda2 to "RESERVE_ROOT" relabelling /dev/hda3 to "/" relabelling /dev/hda5 to "RESERVE_BOOT" relabelling /dev/hda1 to "/boot" Unmounting /tmp/tmpkI23Bo/reserve_boot Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time. GNU GRUB version 0.95 (640K lower / 3072K upper memory) [ Minimal BASH-like line editing is supported. For the first word, TAB lists possible command completions. Anywhere else TAB lists the possible completions of a device/filename.] grub> root (hd0,0) Filesystem type is ext2fs, partition type 0x83 grub> install (hd0,0)/grub/stage1 d (hd0) (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf grub> Unmounting /tmp/tmpkI23Bo/reserve_root Unmounting /tmp/tmpkI23Bo/reserve_boot Peter Schobel ~ On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:55, David Malcolm wrote: > On Wed, 2004-11-24 at 14:46 -0500, Peter Schobel wrote: > > > > when i run /etc/cron.hourly/stateless-replicator on the stateless > > client, it seems to rsync the snapshot and change the disk labels every > > time > > > > shouldn't it be checking the ldap tree to see if the snapshot that is > > running is current and then if it is, do nothing? > Yes, it's meant to check that, and if things are current, it should do > nothing. > > IIRC the cronjob checks on the "reserve" partition; it may be that > although your active partition is current, but the reserve partition > hasn't updated yet. Perhaps that's the case? > > Now I think about it, it might make sense to do the rsync locally from > the active to the reserve in that case, to avoid unnecessary network > traffic.