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Questions tagged [rsnapshot]

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What happens if rsnapshot / rdiff-backup gets interrupted in the middle of a transfer?

Question says it all: What happens if rsnapshot or rdiff-backup gets interrupted in the middle of a transfer? I know that rsnapshot tries to make a complete snapshot of your system in rotating fashion, and rdiff-backup makes a differential backup,…
emf
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Manually run an Anacron Job

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…
Siddharth Manthan
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"Backup Intervals" in rsnapshot.conf?

A simple question about rsnapshot. In order to perform daily backups I'm going to add lines to cron in my Ubuntu. Then, why do I have also these lines in the rsnapshot.conf ? ######################################### # BACKUP INTERVALS …
aneuryzm
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rsnapshot push TO the server FROM the client

I have found out that rsnapshot is great tool for backing up my stuffs for local file system. Now I need to do rsnapshot_push.conf file where I give params to rsync server. What is the right way to do this? Can I use rsync to…
user13123
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What does snapshot_root do?

I want to use rsnapshot for remote backups of my websites. It is not clear this line in rsnapshot.conf: snapshot_root /.snapshots/ In the documentation, it says snapshots are stored in this directory, but I actually want them to be stored on a…
aneuryzm
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Rsnapshot: using different intervals for different directories

Is it possible to backup two different directories using two different intervals using rsnapshot? For example, if I want to backup my /home directory every day, but my /archive directory once a month. Or is that kind of moot point since rsnapshot…
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How to rdiff-backup / rsnapshot / backupninja from LOCAL to REMOTE machine?

I'm a bit confused about doing backups with rsync/rdiff-backup / rsnapshot via SSH. I've been looking at utilities such as backupninja and rsnapshot. These are rsync / rdiff based backup systems, capable of being scheduled to do backups over SSH. …
emf
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Cloud storage that works with rsnapshot?

I’ve started using rsnapshot as my backup system for my home PC. I really like the idea of hard links and how they are handled. But I can’t find the best workflow. Currently I keep my snapshots on the same partition and will copy the newest snapshot…
user10397
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rsnapshot for remote backups?

I want to use rsnapshot to make backups from my production server to a remote backups server. Should I install rsnapshot on the remote backup server and not the production one, right ? rsnapshot is going to pull the files to backup from the…
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Remote rsnapshot failing with "Permission denied" error

I'm trying to set up remote backups with rsnapshot from my home server. I want my server to connect into my laptop and take backups over SSH.Everything is set up correctly and I can connect from my server to the laptop perfectly. The problem is I'm…
Timmy O'Mahony
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Mount rsnapshot directory via NFS for non-root access

I'm trying to make my rsnapshot-backups available to non-root users on a Ubuntu server. There is a step-by-step instruction in the rsnapshot HOWTO, which I think I've followed to the letter. The HOWTO tells me to create the directories…
Mira Weller
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Should I comment out these lines in the default rsnapshot configuration?

I'm setting up the rsnapshot for backups. I've seen in the configuration file, the following backup lines are not commented by default. Should I leave them uncommented or not ? I'm not interested in backing up my system, just specific…
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Prevent shutdown when rsnapshot is running

Since shutdowns during rsnapshot operation will lead to inconsistent/partial backups, I wonder how to delay the system shutdown while rsnapshot is active. The task is complicated by the fact that I need a solution which is compatible with…
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rsnapshot - Differential/incrimental

I've just set up rsnapshot to backup some files to my FS and it seems to be working well. I was wondering if the system does differential/incremental backups by default or do i need to configure it? I'm backup up a nextcloud install so I would…
Stephen Pefanis
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Can I use rsnapshot without a schedule?

I installed rsnapshot and would like to use a command to perform a backup without a schedule. I tried to find the information on its official website but I was only able to find information about scheduled backups. I couldn't find a simple command…
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