Re: rsnapshot; was: backup of backup or alternating backups?

On 30 Sep 2024 19:28 +0100, from debianu...@woodall.me.uk (Tim Woodall): > On a slight tangent, how does rsnapshot deal with ext4 uninited extents? However rsync does. For the actual file copying, rsnapshot largely just delegates to rsync with --link-dest. Looks like at least the Debian packaged

Re: rsnapshot is Throwing an Intermittent Error.

Greg Wooledge writes: > My immediate thought is to stop throwing away the output of these > commands, so that if one of them is failing or giving warnings, you can > actually see what's wrong. > > At least get rid of the 2>&1 on all 3 lines, so you get the stderr output. > Or log the stdout and s

Re: rsnapshot is Throwing an Intermittent Error.

On Thu, Jun 14, 2018 at 10:36:01AM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > /bin/rm: cannot remove > '/var/cache/rsnapshot/halfday.1/wb5agz/home/usr/lib/grub > #Mount backup media first since this next is just a rotation. > mount /rsnapshot1 >/dev/null 2>&1 ||exit 1 > mount /rsnapshot2 >/dev/null 2>&1 ||

Re: rsnapshot

Pol Hallen: > > well, does "delta" keeps my backup for 10 years? For your configuration: yes, I think so. I am still using rsnapshot's old days/weeks/months method, so I do not have own experience with the alpa/beta/gamma/delta thing. J. -- I am on the payroll of a company to whom I owe my undy

Re: rsnapshot

hello and thanks for your reply :) well, does "delta" keeps my backup for 10 years? thanks # Daily at 01:00 am 00 01 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha # Weekly on every Monday at 03:30 am 30 3 * * 1 root/usr/bin/rsnapshot beta # Monthly on ev

Re: rsnapshot

On Friday, September 08, 2017 08:24:09 AM Greg Wooledge wrote: > On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:40:21PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > > Pol Hallen: > > > 00 01 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha > > > 30 3 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot beta > > > > alpha wi

Re: rsnapshot

On Thu, Sep 07, 2017 at 09:40:21PM +0200, Jochen Spieker wrote: > Pol Hallen: > > 00 01 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha > > 30 3 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot beta > > alpha will be run daily at 01:00 am and beta daily at 03:30 am. Is this > what you

Re: rsnapshot

Pol Hallen: > > cat /etc/rsnapshot.conf > [...] > > retain alpha 1 > retain beta7 > retain gamma 12 > retain delta 10 alpha = daily beta = weekly gamma = monthly delta = yearly? > cat /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot > > 00 01 * * * root/usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha > 30 3

Re: rsnapshot advice

Pol Hallen: > > PPS: main backup of each server will be /etc/ For /etc you can also install etckeeper on all servers and just git+ssh pull from a remote location. J. -- Television advertisements are the apothesis of twentieth century culture. [Agree] [Disagree]

Re: rsnapshot advice

On Mittwoch, 19. Oktober 2016 14:13:00 PYST Dan Ritter wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:59:56PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > > Hey all :-) > > > > I need an advice about remote rsnapshot backup: in my scenario I've 8 > > servers and one primary (backup server) in same LAN. > > > > What is better

Re: rsnapshot advice

Pol Hallen wrote: > What is better: make on each server rsnapshot and automatically backup > data (ssh+root) to primary server? > > Or on primary server make a remote backup to all other servers (ssh+root)? I would pull the backup, in case one server is compromised, only one is affected. - Chris

Re: rsnapshot advice

On Wed, Oct 19, 2016 at 06:59:56PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hey all :-) > > I need an advice about remote rsnapshot backup: in my scenario I've 8 > servers and one primary (backup server) in same LAN. > > What is better: make on each server rsnapshot and automatically backup data > (ssh+root) t

Re: rsnapshot advice

PPS: main backup of each server will be /etc/ Pol

Re: Rsnapshot /var/run PID

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 04:27:10PM +, Simon wrote: Hi All, Using Debian 8 and I'd like to run rsnapshot as a regular (non-root) user but it doesn't have permissions to drop the pid file in /var/run. I created a directory called rsnapshot in /

Re: Rsnapshot /var/run PID

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 04:27:10PM +, Simon wrote: > Hi All, > > Using Debian 8 and I'd like to run rsnapshot as a regular (non-root) > user but it doesn't have permissions to drop the pid file in > /var/run. > > I created a directory called rsna

Re: rsnapshot and cron :-)

On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Pol Hallen wrote: > Hi folks > > Using rsnapshot I've unsure about maintein my backup for almost 24 months: > > in rsnapshot.conf I have: > > interval        hourly  6 > interval        daily   7 > interval        weekly  4 > interval       monthly 24 > > (I hope