Questions tagged [rsnapshot]
Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems.
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Doing an rm -rf on a massive directory tree takes hours
We're using rsnapshot for backups. It keeps lots of snapshots of the backuped up file, but it does delete old ones. This is good. However it's taking about 7 hours to do a rm -rf on a massive ...
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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 /usr/local/...
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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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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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Rsnapshot to multiple destinations (or maintain hard links structure)
I'm doing a backup of multiple external servers on a local machine using rsnapshot and it's working beautifully. Now, I'd like to clone the destination snapshots on an external disk that will be ...
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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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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 ...