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I configured rsnapshot so it would not backup hourly by commenting out the hourly cronjob in /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot:

#0 */4          * * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly
30 3    * * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily
0  3    * * 1           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly
30 2    1 * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly

But this gives the error:

/.snapshots/hourly.5 not present (yet), nothing to copy

And it doesn't backup anything any more ever since.

As a workaround, I called this manually now once:

/usr/bin/rsnapshot -v hourly

But how do I configure this correctly so backups only are done once a day at 3:30 am?

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Removing the cron job is not enough. You also have to adapt the config file to reflect the change. Remove (or uncomment) the following line from /etc/rsnapshot.conf:

retain  hourly  24

Then your backups should work again.

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  • I have no retain, still interval, but you are right, the new name is 'retain', see sourceforge.net/p/rsnapshot/mailman/message/6585583
    – rubo77
    Oct 14, 2015 at 15:15
  • @rubo77 Then you have a really old version of rsnapshot or use are using deprecated syntax. For details about your particular version you can check the man page: man rsnapshot | less -p 'retain|interval'
    – Marco
    Oct 14, 2015 at 15:34

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