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michelefaccini
Dec 28, 2013Aspirant
Rsnapshot installed...nothing is happening...
Hi all, I've just installed this addon and commented out the following line in the addons-config/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf file : backup /etc/ localhost/ which should backup my etc folder to the ...
michelefaccini
Jan 06, 2014Aspirant
After reading the documentation, especially http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.pdf, things are a little bit clearer...
Executing rsnapshot configtest will tell you if there's any syntax error in the rsnapshot.conf file.
Executing rsnapshot -t hourly will tell rsnapshot to simulate an "hourly" backup. It should print out the commands it will perform when it runs for real (note that the test doesn't actually do things).
Under etc/cron.d/ you will find the rsnapshot file that contains :
If you have setup alerts (from Frontview, System settings) you will receive a mail like the following :
ERRORS
/etc NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
require Lchown
Lchown module loaded successfully
/usr/bin/du -csh /USB_FLASH_2/hourly.0/
5.0M /USB_FLASH_2/hourly.0/
5.0M total
The next step I would like to setup is :
to backup entire folders like the etc one once a month.
to backup single files daily or weekly.
Executing rsnapshot configtest will tell you if there's any syntax error in the rsnapshot.conf file.
Executing rsnapshot -t hourly will tell rsnapshot to simulate an "hourly" backup. It should print out the commands it will perform when it runs for real (note that the test doesn't actually do things).
Under etc/cron.d/ you will find the rsnapshot file that contains :
0 */4 * * * root /c/addons-config/rsnapshot/hourly.sh
30 23 * * * root /c/addons-config/rsnapshot/daily.sh
0 3 * * 1 root /c/addons-config/rsnapshot/weekly.sh
30 2 1 * * root /c/addons-config/rsnapshot/monthly.sh
If you have setup alerts (from Frontview, System settings) you will receive a mail like the following :
ERRORS
/etc NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
NO STATS DATA
require Lchown
Lchown module loaded successfully
/usr/bin/du -csh /USB_FLASH_2/hourly.0/
5.0M /USB_FLASH_2/hourly.0/
5.0M total
The next step I would like to setup is :
to backup entire folders like the etc one once a month.
to backup single files daily or weekly.
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