Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems.
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rsnapshot frequently ext3-fs error: “ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced:”
I've having following problem frequently on our backupserver. I'll try to explain the issue in the hope somebody could clarify why and how to fix it
Setup details
We have a DELL r200 server attached ...
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rsnapshot Backup partition disk space
I've been reading the FAQs and man page for rsnapshot and I'm struggling to find out what it would do in the event of the backup partition being full.
Ie. If I set the backups to run hourly, backing ...
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rsnapshot : will the initial backup be retained forever?
When making a backup with rsnapshot, "[...] we first replicate the previous backup into a parallel directory structure, creating all the directories and making hard links to all the files.". This is ...
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rsnapshot & rsync --ignore-existing
I'm using rsnapshot to make backups of a folder which contains audio files. When these files change, it is only metadata such as ID3 tags which change, and I don't need to make a new backup of the ...
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rsync/ssh/rsnapshot backup — remote script execution
I have the following settings in my configuration file: (/etc/rsnapshot.conf)
Script/Tool: http://www.rsnapshot.org/
backup_script ssh root@host.domain.com "sh /home/user/backup_mysql.sh" ...
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rsync won't delete file that was deleted on source
I'm using rsnapshot to back up some servers of mine. It works fine, except it won't delete files that have been deleted on the source server. Here is where I give rsnapshot the options to pass along ...
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How to truncate backup paths in rsnapshot
I'm not sure if the heading is really coorect. I have a line in my rsnapshot.conf
backup root@123.123.123.123:/mnt/rsnapshot/ srv01/
So rsnapshot creates a directors ...
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Can I get rsnapshot to create LVM snapshots on a remote machine?
I'm currently running rsnapshot on host1, backing up some files from host2 using the inbuilt SFTP support (I have daily, weekly, and monthly backups running in a standard rsnapshot configuration). ...
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How to modify ssh_args in rsnapshot config?
I have a global rsnapshot config file for all machines that we backup. The global file has
ssh_args -p 123
The machine specific files include the global config file and tries to override the port:
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rsync / rsnapshot
I am using rsnapshot and my config is as follows:
config_version 1.2
snapshot_root /home/user/.snapshots/
cmd_cp /bin/cp
cmd_rm /bin/rm
cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync
cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh
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rsnapshot stats
I'd like to retrieve the following stats from rsnapshot
files synced
added files
modded files
deleted files
Is there a feature to retrieve these in rsnapshot, or is there another product that's ...
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Remote backup grabbing
I have 2 servers. 1 is main. 2 is backup. I would like 2 to log in and grab files from 1 and backup on 2 with rsnapshot. Is this possible?
I was looking at the config setup and saw this:
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rsnapshot - not correctly archiving mysql databases
My rsnapshot configuration:
snapshot_root /.snapshots/
backup /home/user localhost/
backup_script /usr/local/backup_mysql.sh localhost/mysql/
Using this file:
NOW=$(date ...
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Rsnapshot hard-link ONLY + diffs
We have a 39 TB linux server (mdadm raid 6 15 3TB Drives) that has about 12TB of working data on it. Initially I wanted to create a snapshot system that only saved the data that was changed, much like ...
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rsnapshot ext4 to ext2 input output error
When making a rsnapshot backup from a ext4 to a ext2 filesystem, about 90% of the files cannot be opened and produce Input/Output errors.
When the target is ext4 too, it works flawless.
Any ideas ...
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rsnapshot preexec
I am mounting my remote backup volume using a rsnapshot cmd_preexec script.
If the /mnt/backup directory doesn't exist when starting rsnapshot i get this error:
ERROR: /mnt/backup does not exist.
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incremental archive backup similar to rsnapshot
I am looking for a similar tool like rsnapshot, capable of doing incremental backups and easy viewing of different backup versions (=easy unpacking of all increments of a specific backup or viewing of ...
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rsnapshot backup TO remote server
I just bought 100GB of "Cloud"-Space at Strato's HiDrive for remote server backups.
They offer the following services: sftp,webdav,smb/cifs,rsync,scp
Now i want to do a remote backup to my ...
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Setting up Rsnapshot for casual manual backup?
I am confused with new Rsnapshot configuration. In current version there is a different way of specifiying backup intervals, like so:
retain hourly 2
retain weekly 7
retain monthly 2
I would like ...
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Running rsnapshot backup in a Linux virtual machine?
I have a remote Linux server machine that I wanted to mirror backup now and then. Since I am a Windows user, I installed Linux virtual machine on my Windows and I am now using rsnapshot to do the ...
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Restore backup with Rsnapshot
The system is ubuntu server 12.04.
I am using rSnapshot to back up the system.
I now want to restore everything in the home folder.
I am restoring from an external HDD:
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How to check rsnapshot backups?
I have about twenty servers with different webapps. Every 4 hours runs rsnapshot task and backs up all of them to a backup server.
Accidentally today I discovered that backup failed last 4 days due ...
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rsnapshot to Amazon S3?
I'm looking at rsnapshot and S3 to backup my server. But since rsnapshot can't directly upload to S3, and I'm not sure if S3 preserves file permissions, I'm thinking of archiving the backup folders ...
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rsync filter file rules for subpath
I have a big problem in understanding rsync filter rules for sub path.
I have this directory tree:
|-- index.php
|-- other-file-php.php
|-- filesource.php
| |-- album1
| | |-- firstphoto.jpg
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Backup tools detecting relocated files [closed]
Currently my favorite backup tool for my needs is rsnapshot. The only downside is the space wasted if files are just relocated. I have seen a similar question at severfault, but the author tried to ...
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Backing up an rsnapshot directory to a remote device
I have a local backup server that uses rsnapshot with hard links that contains about 10TBs of information which add about 4 to 5GBs per day. It's works great. I've been requested to set up and ...
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Rsnapshot Directory Names [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to make rsnapshot backups in different locations?
By default rsnapshot names the directory names for each snapshots according to the interval. (i.e. daily.0, ...
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Speeding up directory creation / file linking
I'm using rsnapshot for backups. Currently that means every time an update runs (even without any data difference) I get a copy of ~100M of only the directory structure + inode list. The files are ...
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Rsync -avzHP follows hardlinks instead of copying them as hardlinks
I use rsnapshot to create hourly/daily/weekly/monthly backups of my "work"-share. Now I'm trying to copy the whole backup-directory onto an external drive using rsync.
I used this command/parameters ...
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How to make rsnapshot backups in different locations?
I have backup server that gathers backups from few other servers. I want to make directory structure like this
/backup/snapshots/<hostname>/<period>.0/<files>
Instead of default
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How to backup a server directory remotely?
I am trying to create a backup of a remote server. This is my configuration:
Server1 (webserver)
Server2 (backupserver)
This is my little script. It starts from the server2:
#!/bin/bash
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How To Prevent Access To Unmounted Mount Point
Ok, I have this in fstab
//windows_mashine/Backup /backups cifs credentials=/root/.credentials,rw,_netdev,iocharset=utf8,uid=1000 0 0
I have rsnapshot in my cron which backups /etc/ and ...
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Which filesystems offer snapshot functionality for users to recover data?
I'm working on a project that will teach linux to youth. Knowing they will have a tendency to delete or corrupt items in their home directories we are looking for a good snapshot option. We will not ...
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Backup security and tracking
I have setup a backup server which pulls data using rsnapshot from my server. rsnapshot is running as root on backup machine and connects to the server via RSA key that has no passphrase. My concern ...
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Bacula vs. BackupPC [closed]
I have been googling about the differences between them.
Bacula has lots of roles
BackupPC is easier to configure
Bacula works with agent, not rsync (great for Windows backups)
It seems that ...
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How come /bin/rm -rf /backups/hourly.5/ takes forever on a backup server?
They're simply hardlinks so the files shouldn't actually even be deleted.
What options do I have? It even seems to take quite some load. I don't see how deleting 30.000 hard-links should take more ...
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What exactly will --delete-excluded do for rsync?
I use rsync with great pleasure for backing up my servers, although I do have a question about the --delete-exclude parameter.
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded ...
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What Folders Should I Not Backup on CentOS?
I'm using rsnapshot to start backing up a CentOS 5.5 install and I need a list of folders that I should probably exclude from the backups. The server is primarily a LAMP web server, and will be ...
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Should I be using LVM snapshots along with rsnapshot?
I manage a CentOS 4.8 server for a small workgroup. Last year I converted the filesystem to LVM over software RAID (RAID 1, two mirrored drives).
I now have the following filesystems on LVM/RAID:
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Backup of rsync tree
I have a production server A and a VM server B (test and dev). Server B has hourly rsnapshots of server A. We'd like to use the snapshot tree at server B for further propragation to one of our branch ...
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Remote backup of /root directory
I'm setting up a server to do remote backups through SSH (pull). How can I copy the /root directory without logging in as root user?
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How to backup my files secure and properly
Duplicity & rsnapshot helps me backup my files to remote FTPs server. I can recover file if my server harddisk failed. But if someone hacking my local server and he can get all remote server ...
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rsnapshot schedule overlapping, help with backup schedule
I have to following configuration.
rsnapshot.conf
interval halfhourly 4
interval hourly 6
interval twohourly 12
interval daily 7
interval weekly 4
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ERROR: snapshot_root must be a full path
I want to use rsnapshot to make backups of some folders on a remote server.
I've already setup Key Based Authentication, and I've specified in rsnapshot.conf:
snapshot_root user@server.com/
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rsnapshot intervals in configuration file
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 ?
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Question about 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 ...
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Optimal file system type and mount options for an rsnapshot dedicated drive
We have an external USB 2 drive that we are using as a backup drive for our configuration. We use rsnapshot for the backups. It uses a few standard commands for managing snapshots:
rm -rf: deletes ...
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rsync with --hard-links freezes
I have a large directory called servers, which contains many hard-links made by rsnapshot. That means that the structure is more or less like:
./servers
./servers/daily.0
./servers/daily.0/file1
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Cron: Can't get my backup schedule to work with rsnapshot
I'm setting up backups with rsnapshot. It is now running by cron, but not when/in the interval I intended it to.
Below is the schedule. It's this way to minimize overlapping backups. This should ...
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What directories to/not backup
I'm setting up rsnapshot to backup a production LAMP server. These are the directories that currently are going to be backed up.
/home
/etc
/usr/local
/root
/var
What directories can I exclude ...
