Hdup error "No such file or directory"

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The first attachment is the output of the Cron job trying to run Hdup.
The second attachment is my configuration file.

The problem is that I see:
| No such file or directory.

The system call that matches according to Strace is:
| 856   open("/backup/nova/08-09-2003/nova.08-09-2003.daily.tar.gz", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)

Now </backup/nova/> exists just fine, but </backup/nova/08-09-2003/>
exists not.  I thought Hdup would create the date directory by itself?
But it didn't.

One more thing... Hdup only fails from Cron, never from the interactive
shell.  I have no idea why.

This is Hdup version 1.6.18 on Debian testing (I installed the Debian
unstable version and "loosened" the dependency on the <libc> package.)

Some more snippets from Strace:
| 856   --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) @ 0 (0) ---
| 856   open("/dev/null", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOTDIR (Not a directory)
| 856   open("/backup/nova/08-09-2003", O_RDONLY|O_NONBLOCK|O_LARGEFILE|O_DIRECTORY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
| 856   stat64("/backup/nova/etc/inclist.weekly", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=459191, ...}) = 0
| 856   fork()                            = 859
| 856   wait4(-1,  <unfinished ...>
| 859   execve("/bin/sh", ["sh", "-c", "/bin/cp -f /backup/nova/etc/incl"...], [/* 14 vars */]) = 0
[ Hdup does some copying and some other stuff I can't identify ]
| 856   open("/backup/nova/08-09-2003/nova.08-09-2003.daily.tar.gz", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE, 0666) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
| 856   pipe([4, 5])                      = 0
| 856   vfork()                           = 861
| 856   close(5 <unfinished ...>
| 861   close(4 <unfinished ...>
| 856   <... close resumed> )             = 0
| 861   <... close resumed> )             = 0
| 856   write(2, "No such file or directory\n", 26 <unfinished ...>

Hi again.  You getting tired of me yet?  :-)

-- 
Tom Goulet, [email protected], D8BAD3BC, http://web.em.ca/~tomg/contact.html

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/etc/cron.daily/hdup:
/usr/bin/hdup: nova: STARTING BACKUP.
No such file or directory
/usr/bin/hdup: WARNING: AN ERROR OCCURED!

Hdup version.:  1.6.18

Host.........:  nova
Date.........:  08-09-2003
Scheme.......:  daily
Archive......:  nova.08-09-2003.daily.tar.gz
Encryption...:  no

                AN ERROR OCCURED!
                NOTHING WAS DONE!

/bin/tar: Removing leading `/' from member names

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[global]
archive dir = /backup
user = root
compression = gzip
proto = /usr/bin/scp
tar = /bin/tar
overwrite = yes

[nova]
dir = /
exclude = /proc, /extra, /backup, /mnt/giant, /floppy, /cdrom, /dev/pts
prerun = mount /backup
postrun = umount /backup
# && hdparm -Y /dev/hdd


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