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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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Remote backup grabbing

I have 2 servers. 1 is main. 2 is backup. I would like 2 to log in and grab files from 1 and backup on 2 with rsnapshot. Is this possible? I was looking at the config setup and saw this: backup_script ssh root@example.com "mysqldump -A >…
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rsnapshot ext4 to ext2 input output error

When making a rsnapshot backup from a ext4 to a ext2 filesystem, about 90% of the files cannot be opened and produce Input/Output errors. When the target is ext4 too, it works flawless. Any ideas how I can fix that? Clarification: The backup runs…
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Running rsnapshot backup in a Linux virtual machine?

I have a remote Linux server machine that I wanted to mirror backup now and then. Since I am a Windows user, I installed Linux virtual machine on my Windows and I am now using rsnapshot to do the backup. So, rsnapshot takes data from remote linux…
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Backup tools detecting relocated files

Currently my favorite backup tool for my needs is rsnapshot. The only downside is the space wasted if files are just relocated. I have seen a similar question at severfault, but the author tried to implement his own solution. In the past I used…
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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 maintain a remote backup of the local rsnapshot…
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Remote backup of /root directory

I'm setting up a server to do remote backups through SSH (pull). How can I copy the /root directory without logging in as root user?
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Question about rsnapshot configuration

I'm setting up the rsnapshot for backups. I've seen in the configuration file, the following backup lines are not commented by default. Should I leave them uncommented or not ? I'm not interested in backing up my system, just specific…
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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 generate 8 backups every half hour, then 8 backups…
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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 /var? Anything else that should be backed…
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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-to/rsnapshot-my1.conf alpha and the backup was…
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Does daily rsync OS backup push SSD drives to its limits?

Since past year I'm using Rsnapshot (which uses rsync) to do my daily laptop Linux Ubuntu OS backup to a local NAS. Some months ago I started having serious problems with the OS stability. It seems like the disk drive gets damaged, so the fsck needs…
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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 source and target destination, and the updates are…
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What are "unmatched entries" from rsnapshot in Logwatch?

I've just started using Logwatch and think it's brilliant. But every day I get the following errors from rsnapshot: **Unmatched Entries** ~/bin/backupscript.sh: 24 Time(s) cd /backups/: 24 Time(s) cd /backups/tmp/: 24 Time(s) …
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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 someone has invented this wheel before. Can anyone…
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