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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 ...
fastfwd
Jan 06, 2014Virtuoso
michelefaccini wrote: After reading the documentation, especially http://www.rsnapshot.org/howto/1.2/rsnapshot-HOWTO.en.pdf, things are a little bit clearer...
Good.
michelefaccini wrote: 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.
With rsnapshot, there is usually no reason to do that. Only files that have changed are copied to the backup drive, so folders (like /etc) which contain files that do not frequently change are backed up almost instantaneously, and the snapshots of such folders consume almost no disk space.
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