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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 from...
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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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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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Getting Linux copy to handle failing links
I just started using the nifty rsnapshot utility for backups to our NAS. I really like the tool (which uses rsync and links unchanged files to keep the backup size down), but I’m running into problems...
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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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Configuring rsnapshot to only backup local file systems
I’m currently using rsnapshot to backup a server farm where NFS is used heavily. Unfortunately, the current setup has us backing up the same files multiple times due to the NFS mounts. For example,...
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Any good rsnapshot nagios plugins?
I’m using Nagios to monitor servers, and we use rsnapshot for backups. I’d like a plugin for Nagios that monitors that rsnapshot is being run successfully. I’ve seen some rsnapshot plugins that will...
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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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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 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 to...
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