Comment 2 for bug 1448470

BIT user is root, owner of /tmp/backintime/root/<folder #1>/backintime/<HOST>/root/<PROFILE_ID> is "Me" (<username> instead of root) and permissions are drwx------.

Manual command: sudo cp -aRl "/tmp/backintime/root/<folder #1>/backintime/<HOST>/root/<PROFILE_ID>/<LAST DATE>/backup/"* "/tmp/backintime/root/<folder #1>/backintime/<HOST>/root/<PROFILE_ID>/new_snapshot/backup/"
cp: cannot stat ...: No such file or directory

The <folder #1> in the /tmp/backintime/root folder is actually a "Link to folder" named <folder #2>. I renamed the folder to <folder #1>, same error message (No such file or directory).

That "Link to folder" points to a folder containing my snapshots including a "new_snapshot" folder from the date of the original backup failure. I did sudo rm -Rf /tmp/.../new_snapshot on the true folder rather than hard-link. This removed all but one file. I then shut down BIT, removed newest encrypted folder from local_USB/2014, restarted BIT and "new_snapshot" folder was gone! Although I had removed newest encrypted folder from local_USB/2014 multiple times in past, this is first time "new_snapshot" fully removed!

Nonetheless, I tried to run BIT and it failed again.