I have performed a minimal installation of UBUNTU. I trying to configure my system to take automatic backups using rsnapshot. I have successfully configured my rsnapshot.conf file and by running rsnapshot weekly command in terminal I am getting the desired results.
Here is my rsnapshot.conf file :
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# rsnapshot.conf - rsnapshot configuration file #
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# PLEASE BE AWARE OF THE FOLLOWING RULE: #
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CONFIG FILE VERSION
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config_version 1.2
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SNAPSHOT ROOT DIRECTORY
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All snapshots will be stored under this root directory.
snapshot_root /media/siddharth/Backup/Backup
If no_create_root is enabled, rsnapshot will not automatically create the
snapshot_root directory. This is particularly useful if you are backing
up to removable media, such as a FireWire or USB drive.
no_create_root 1
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EXTERNAL PROGRAM DEPENDENCIES
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LINUX USERS: Be sure to uncomment "cmd_cp". This gives you extra features.
EVERYONE ELSE: Leave "cmd_cp" commented out for compatibility.
See the README file or the man page for more details.
cmd_cp /bin/cp
uncomment this to use the rm program instead of the built-in perl routine.
cmd_rm /bin/rm
rsync must be enabled for anything to work. This is the only command that
must be enabled.
cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync
Uncomment this to enable remote ssh backups over rsync.
#cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh
Comment this out to disable syslog support.
cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger
Uncomment this to specify the path to "du" for disk usage checks.
If you have an older version of "du", you may also want to check the
"du_args" parameter below.
cmd_du /usr/bin/du
Uncomment this to specify the path to rsnapshot-diff.
cmd_rsnapshot_diff /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff
Specify the path to a script (and any optional arguments) to run right
before rsnapshot syncs files
#cmd_preexec /path/to/preexec/script
Specify the path to a script (and any optional arguments) to run right
after rsnapshot syncs files
#cmd_postexec /path/to/postexec/script
Paths to lvcreate, lvremove, mount and umount commands, for use with
Linux LVMs.
#linux_lvm_cmd_lvcreate /sbin/lvcreate
#linux_lvm_cmd_lvremove /sbin/lvremove
#linux_lvm_cmd_mount /bin/mount
#linux_lvm_cmd_umount /bin/umount
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BACKUP LEVELS / INTERVALS
Must be unique and in ascending order
e.g. alpha, beta, gamma, etc.
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retain weekly 1 #
#retain alpha 6
#retain beta 7
#retain gamma 4
#retain delta 3
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GLOBAL OPTIONS
All are optional, with sensible defaults
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Verbose level, 1 through 5.
1 Quiet Print fatal errors only
2 Default Print errors and warnings only
3 Verbose Show equivalent shconfig_version 1.2ell commands being executed
4 Extra Verbose Show extra verbose information
5 Debug mode Everything
verbose 2
Same as "verbose" above, but controls the amount of data sent to the
logfile, if one is being used. The default is 3.
loglevel 3
If you enable this, data will be written to the file you specify. The
amount of data written is controlled by the "loglevel" parameter.
logfile /media/siddharth/Backup/Backup/Logs/Snapshot.log
If enabled, rsnapshot will write a lockfile to prevent two instances
from running simultaneously (and messing up the snapshot_root).
If you enable this, make sure the lockfile directory is not world
writable. Otherwise anyone can prevent the program from running.
lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
By default, rsnapshot check lockfile, check if PID is running
and if not, consider lockfile as stale, then start
Enabling this stop rsnapshot if PID in lockfile is not running
#stop_on_stale_lockfile 0
Default rsync args. All rsync commands have at least these options set.
#rsync_short_args -a
#rsync_long_args --delete -relative --numeric-ids --delete-excluded
ssh has no args passed by default, but you can specify some here.
#ssh_args -p 22
Default arguments for the "du" program (for disk space reporting).
The GNU version of "du" is preferred. See the man page for more details.
If your version of "du" doesn't support the -h flag, try -k flag instead.
#du_args -csh
If this is enabled, rsync won't span filesystem partitions within a
backup point. This essentially passes the -x option to rsync.
The default is 0 (off).
#one_fs 0
The include and exclude parameters, if enabled, simply get passed directly
to rsync. If you have multiple include/exclude # /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root
These replace cron's entries
1 5 cron.daily run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
7 10 cron.weekly run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 15 cron.monthly run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
7 5 backup.weekly rsnapshot weekly >> /media/siddharth/Backup/Backup/Logs/Anacron/log patterns, put each one on a
separate line. Please look up the --include and --exclude options in the
rsync man page for more details on how to specify file name patterns.
#include ???
#exclude ???
#exclude ???
The include_file and exclude_file parameters, if enabled, simply get
passed directly to rsync. Please look up the --include-from and
--exclude-from options in the rsync man page for more details.
include_file ???
exclude_file ???
If your version of rsync supports --link-dest, consider enabling this.
This is the best way to support special files (FIFOs, etc) cross-platform.
The default is 0 (off).
link_dest 1
When sync_first is enabled, it changes the default behaviour of rsnapshot.
Normally, when rsnapshot is called with its lowest interval
(i.e.: "rsnapshot alpha"), it will sync files AND rotate the lowest
intervals. With sync_first enabled, "rsnapshot sync" handles the file sync,
and all interval calls simply rotate files. See the man page for more
details. The default is 0 (off).
sync_first 1
If enabled, rsnapshot will move the oldest directory for each interval
to [interval_name].delete, then it will remove the lockfile and delete
that directory just before it exits. The default is 0 (off).
#use_lazy_deletes 0
Number of rsync re-tries. If you experience any network problems or
network card issues that tend to cause ssh to fail with errors like
"Corrupted MAC on input", for example, set this to a non-zero value
to have the rsync operation re-tried.
#rsync_numtries 0
LVM parameters. Used to backup with creating lvm snapshot before backup
and removing it after. This should ensure consistency of data in some special
cases
LVM snapshot(s) size (lvcreate --size option).
#linux_lvm_snapshotsize 100M
Name to be used when creating the LVM logical volume snapshot(s).
#linux_lvm_snapshotname rsnapshot
Path to the LVM Volume Groups.
#linux_lvm_vgpath /dev
Mount point to use to temporarily mount the snapshot(s).
#linux_lvm_mountpath /path/to/mount/lvm/snapshot/during/backup
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BACKUP POINTS / SCRIPTS
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LOCALHOST
backup /home/ User/
backup /etc/ Root/
backup /usr/local/ Root/
backup /var/cache/apt/ Root/
backup /etc/default/plexmediaserver Root/
backup /etc/init/plexmediaserver.conf Root/
backup /var/spool/anacron Root/
#backup /var/log/rsnapshot localhost/
#backup /etc/passwd localhost/
#backup /home/foo/My Documents/ localhost/
#backup /foo/bar/ localhost/ one_fs=1, rsync_short_args=-urltvpog
#backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_pgsql.sh localhost/postgres/
You must set linux_lvm_* parameters below before using lvm snapshots
#backup lvm://vg0/xen-home/ lvm-vg0/xen-home/
EXAMPLE.COM
#backup_exec /bin/date "+ backup of example.com started at %c"
#backup root@example.com:/home/ example.com/ +rsync_long_args=--bwlimit=16,exclude=core
#backup root@example.com:/etc/ example.com/ exclude=mtab,exclude=core
#backup_exec ssh root@example.com "mysqldump -A > /var/db/dump/mysql.sql"
#backup root@example.com:/var/db/dump/ example.com/
#backup_exec /bin/date "+ backup of example.com ended at %c"
CVS.SOURCEFORGE.NET
#backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_rsnapshot_cvsroot.sh rsnapshot.cvs.sourceforge.net/
RSYNC.SAMBA.ORG
#backup rsync://rsync.samba.org/rsyncftp/ rsync.samba.org/rsyncftp/
I created a weekly Anacron job in anacrontab file:
# /etc/anacrontab: configuration file for anacron
See anacron(8) and anacrontab(5) for details.
SHELL=/bin/sh
PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin
HOME=/root
LOGNAME=root
These replace cron's entries
1 5 cron.daily run-parts --report /etc/cron.daily
7 10 cron.weekly run-parts --report /etc/cron.weekly
@monthly 15 cron.monthly run-parts --report /etc/cron.monthly
7 5 backup.weekly rsnapshot weekly >> /media/siddharth/Backup/Backup/Logs/Anacron/log
How do I test whether Anacron will run this Job without any error.
Most of the time I'll not be logged in. How do I test run Anacron ?
