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

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

Using rsync and hard links, it is possible to keep multiple, full backups instantly available. The disk space required is just a little more than the space of one full backup, plus incrementals.

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Send me mail on rsnapshot fail

I am using rsnapshot for daily/weekly backups which are triggered by anacron, that works nice. However instead of checking the logs by hand, I would like to receive a mail whenever a backup failed. This mail should consist of the full rsnapshot…
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passing additional parameters to rsync using rsnapshot

I have my backups being performed by rsnapshot, works well. EXCEPT, on one of the jobs for the /home volume I'd like rsync to copy the sym-links as physical directory/files. I believe the parameter is --copy-links for rsync but can't seem to find a…
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How to compress files before Rsnapshot remote backup start?

I have some remote servers and one backup server, I'm using Rsnapshot to do the remote backup on the backup server. In my plan, I want to run shell script to compress files first, then Rsnapshot can backup the compressed files. In the Rsnapshot…
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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 machines to the switch and we started having issues…
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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 drive at say \BACKUP and rsnapshot configured to copy…
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Local Encrypted Incremental Space efficient Backup Solution

I am a student and for my hobby projects i managed to buy a vps. Problem is how can i backup that? I have got a webdav account somewhere (and they allow to store any file types for any purposes as long as copyrights are not being voilated) and i…
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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 with an EasyRAID Q16R-S3R3 RAID disk array. We…
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rsnapshot Backup partition disk space

I've been reading the FAQs and man page for rsnapshot and I'm struggling to find out what it would do in the event of the backup partition being full. Ie. If I set the backups to run hourly, backing up to a dedicated backup partition. What happens…
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rsnapshot & rsync --ignore-existing

I'm using rsnapshot to make backups of a folder which contains audio files. When these files change, it is only metadata such as ID3 tags which change, and I don't need to make a new backup of the entire MP3 file just because of this. I've got the…
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How to modify ssh_args in rsnapshot config?

I have a global rsnapshot config file for all machines that we backup. The global file has ssh_args -p 123 The machine specific files include the global config file and tries to override the port: include_conf /etc/rsnapshot-common.conf ssh_args…
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rsnapshot backup TO remote server

I just bought 100GB of "Cloud"-Space at Strato's HiDrive for remote server backups. They offer the following services: sftp,webdav,smb/cifs,rsync,scp Now i want to do a remote backup to my Backup-Space using rsnapshot. All the examples I found were…
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How to make rsnapshot backups in different locations?

I have backup server that gathers backups from few other servers. I want to make directory structure like this /backup/snapshots//.0/ Instead of default /backup/snapshots/.0// How to do this? I…
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How come /bin/rm -rf /backups/hourly.5/ takes forever on a backup server?

They're simply hardlinks so the files shouldn't actually even be deleted. What options do I have? It even seems to take quite some load. I don't see how deleting 30.000 hard-links should take more than a minute, let alone a full hour. I use…
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rsnapshot intervals in configuration file

A simple question about rsnapshot. In order to perform daily backups I'm going to add lines to cron in my Ubuntu. Then, why do I have also these lines in the rsnapshot.conf ? ######################################### # BACKUP INTERVALS …
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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 copying certain links, e.g: sudo /bin/cp -al…
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