rsnapshot will work better if monthly is done before weekly, weekly before daily and daily before hourly.
For example, if you run "rsnapshot daily" then "rsnapshot weekly", then you will end up with no daily.6 snapshot, and a snapshot will be unnecessarily deleted (assuming the default rsnapshot.conf). The daily will delete the old daily.6, rotate the daily snapshots up and promote hourly.5 to daily.0; then the weekly will delete weekly.3, rotate the weekly snapshots up and promote daily.6 to weekly.0. If rsnapshots are run in the other order, then daily.6 won't be deleted (because it will instead have been promoted to weekly.0). This is why /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot (if lines are uncommented) runs monthly before weekly, weekly before daily, and daily before hourly. You also would not want to run multiple rsnapshots at the same time. (@hourly, @daily, @weekly, @monthly and @yearly all run at midnight.) Also note that (with the default rsnapshot.conf) hourly is intended to run 6 times per day (that is, every 4 hours), not every hour. Hopefully this gives a good explanation to Jon about why the cron definitions are as they are and why built-ins are not used. There is some more documentation on this in the rsnapshot(1) man page, under USAGE, http://www.rsnapshot.org/rsnapshot.html#usage . And at http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.html#automation So I would recommend that neither of the patches are applied. I probably also suggest just to close this bug. -- David Keegel Loyalty Pacific Pty Ltd IT Systems Administrator Level 4, 800 Toorak Rd Tel: 03 8608 7726 Glen Iris Vic 3146 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
