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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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(rsync on) mounted volume: hard links seem to be preserved, but space calculated as full files

I'm trying to set up a space-efficient rotating backup scheme with rsnapshot / rsync from a server to a Hetzner storagebox. I'm having a hard time understanding how hard links on the destination are affecting the disk usage being reported. In short:…
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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 -p 4378 [...] protocol version mismatch -- is…
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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 that the '#' is not recognised as a comment…
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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 snapshots...Looks like the snapshot scheduler is taking …
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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/exports # Data (insecure for MACOS…
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My rsnapshot is freezing without errors

I try to make backup-system. I try to use rsnapshot. description: Client with rsnapshot put data in sshfs-mounted folder (sftp backup-server). I make ssh-key, mounted it, everything fine. In rsnapshot conf I enabled link_dest=1, because defaults 0…
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How to have rsnapshot link to original files?

I'd like rsnapshot to not create a second copy of all my files and instead just have hardlinks to the original files and only save a copy of changes. I have a windows and linux server. I would like to have backups of my linux system stored onto the…
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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 backup files, and a tar.gz of said files. Plain…
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Does rsnapshot save binary diffs?

I use rsnapshot for some years under Kubunt/Linux. But I am not sure how it (and underlying rsync) handles binary diffs: Image a large Thunderbird mailbox file or a 10 MB jpg photo and I change the EXIF data by adding a tag or a rating. What does…
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Backup 2 remote servers at different time

I have 2 remote servers, which I backup from my backup server using rsnapshot. My config section for backup is something like this: backup root@example1.com:/var/db/dump/ example1.com/ backup root@example2.com:/var/db/dump/ example2.com/ Cronjob…
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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. I have sync_first set to 1. When I run…
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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 following lines: #cmd_cp /usr/bin/cp #cmd_ssh …
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monitor rsnapshot's log file with logwatch

How does one go about including rsnapshot's log file in logwatch's configuration? Logwatch is software that will parse logs and check for important information and email it to someone. How can one have logwatch look over rsnapshot's log file.
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rsnapshot subdir of user home directories

i want to make backups of specific subdirs in my users home directories. For example the typical home dir looks like: \home\alice\backup \home\alice\something_else \home\bob\backup\ \home\bob\trivia ... and i would like to preserve the directory…
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Rsnapshot still running even with a full disk - no errors in log

Im a very new admin(intern) without anyone to show me the job. The company i work for use rsnaphot to do their backups. Here's their filesystem (CentOs) : Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 184G 140G …
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