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Rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility for making backups of local and remote systems.

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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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Why is rsnapshot with sync_first not working properly?

I had been using rsnapshot successfully for years to backup my Ubuntu notebook computers to my Ubuntu server. I recently decided to switch to using the sync_first option on the server and an anacron ...
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Safely deleting rsnapshot _delete folders

I have been using rsnapshot to backup a computer's / for approximately a year. The destination drive has filled up unexpectedly quickly within the last week or so, and the rsync command has failed, ...
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rsnapshot Freezes when Backing up to NFS Mount

I've got a Server running Ubuntu Server 14.04 server that has been doing periodic back-ups to an NFS mounted NAS using rsnapshot for several months now without issue. Last week we added a few more ...
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Rsnaphost "works" when tested but not when run

I have set up rsnapshot successfully a couple of times, and maybe because everything was rather painless (except for the vi tab fiasco of 2013) I am now out of ideas. I have a cifs mounted remote ...
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rsnapshot frequently ext3-fs error: "ext3_lookup: deleted inode referenced:"

I frequently have the following problem on our backup server. 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 / rsync protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?

on both computer same version of rsync: rsync --version rsync version 3.1.2 protocol version 31 cat /etc/rsnapshot.conf [...] backup root@IP:/etc/ localhost/ ssh_args=-i /root/.ssh/id_rsa ...
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Can entries in QNAP (rsnap) hosts file be commented out?

We're using QNAP rsnap for our Linux servers backup. rsnap uses the .../bin/hosts file to list the machines on which the backup is to run. Is there a way to comment out some machines? It seems ...
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rsnapshot produces a double backup of localhost/media

I use rsnapshot in my Xen host to backup all vms via their snapshots. Now rsnapshot backups everything double, because it creates an extra "localhost" folder in each daily backup, that contains ...
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rsnapshot gamma and delta not running

I have used rsnapshot for many years and never had an issue but I can't figure this one out. Version is 1.4.2. I have the following in rsnapshot.conf: retain alpha 8 retain beta 7 ...
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rsnapshot ignoring a "backup" line, logs are empty

I've been using rsnapshot to backup my server. In one server (debian 7) the exact same config works as expected. In the other (debian 8), it skips a directory im trying to backup, which has mysql dump ...
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How to create image file and mount via. loopback (Ubuntu to remote backup space)

I've been fiddling around with the Hetzner Backup Space and I want to use rsync via. rsnapshot in order to back up my files (more info at their Wiki here) They state in their documentation: The ...
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Syncing rsnapshot backup drives

I have a pair of USB drives I use for backing up to via rsnapshot. One drive is left plugged in and the other is taken off site. For the first swap, I ran "rsync -aH" to copy all the contents from ...
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How to let rsnapshot continue after backup error?

I have implemented a multi-server backup system, which is working quite effectively. I have a backup server with a large disk-array, and every night it runs rsnapshot to backup relevant data on all ...
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Is it possible to have multiple log files for one rsnapshot?

the company im working for use rsnapshot for its backup. I know where to put the log path in the conf file, but i was wondering if it was possible to have something like : /var/log/rsnapshot --> ...
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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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rsnapshot du shows huge difference in size between two backups, rsnapshot-diff says nothing changed between them

I'm on Debian 12. My backup drive filled up so I'm trying to figure out what is using so much space. Somehow the most recent backup is not hourly.0, it's hourly.20 and from a few days ago ("...
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How to rsnapshot keep mirror backup and 'retain' directories have only deleted and changed files

I'm triyng/testing rsnapshot in my Ubuntu desktop to make incremental backups from a remote server to my desktop. I use a custom config file where I set retain alpha 7 I executed rsnapshot -V -c /path-...
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rsync: updated files to new folder

rsync allows to copy/synchronize folders without transferring files that already have been synchronized before and that did not change since last run. For that, you typically have to specify the ...
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Managing /etc/rsnaphost file for mutliple servers

I'm looking into the best way to manage the /etc/rsnapshot file which tells rsnapshot what to backup. I have about a hundred servers. While I could modify the /etc/rsnapshot file manually, I'm sure ...
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Backup failure alerting in GCP

I was try to configure the snapshot failure alerting in GCP but unfortunately it wont work at all. I scheduled the snapshot for disks and delete the VM...but still my snapshot scheduler takes ...
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rsnapshot through nfs: failed to preserve ownership|cannot access errors

Trying to rsnapshot to an nfs share I get some ownership and access errors, even if I can visibly do any operation on my shares with UID 1000 and GID 1000 on both server/client. Server exports /etc/...
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Rsnapshot frequently exits with error 12 when processing tar.gz file

I have an rsnapshot tool to backup some machines. It's running on a QNAP NAS and backing up several machines. One of the things I backup is database backups. On one machine I create both plain text ...
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special permissions set to deny on new subfolders of a folder I own with Full Control

I have rsnapshot 1.3.1 installed under cygwin64 (setup 2.870, dll 1.7.35) on win2012r2, all the latest as of today. I configured it to take a single file, current.7z, and make a rotating backup of it....
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What is the best way to backup and restore a CentOS 7 server, using rsnapshot?

I recently made a backup of a CentOS 7 server using rsnapshot - version 1.3.1 and rsync -version 3.0.9 I made a few changes to the rsnapshot.conf file, which are listed below. I uncommented the ...
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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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