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, /etc/rsnapshot.conf has this:

backup backupuser@machine1:/local_directory/       machine1
backup backupuser@machine2:/exported_directory/       machine2

Now, machine1 has /local_directory/exported_directory mounted — so I end up with backups of both machine1/local_directory/exported_directory AND machine2/exported_directory.

While I could work around this by either mounting things differently on the clients or by manually excluding the directories, I’d rather find a cleaner approach (which is probably a rsnapshot or rsync option).

Found it! I knew I should’ve perused the man pages one last time before posting

It’s -x or –one-file-system option to rsync.

  -x, --one-file-system
              This tells rsync  not  to  cross  filesystem  boundaries   when
              recursing.   This   is  useful for transferring the contents of
              only one filesystem.

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