Rsnapshot

Rsnapshot

Description:

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.

Depending on your configuration, it is quite possible to set up in just a few minutes. Files can be restored by the users who own them, without the root user getting involved.

There are no tapes to change, so once it's set up, your backups can happen automatically untouched by human hands. And because rsnapshot only keeps a fixed (but configurable) number of snapshots, the amount of disk space used will not continuously grow.

Requirements: RAIDiator 4.2.11+

Platform: x86

Current Version: 2.3

If you already have a previous version 1.2 or 1.3 please upgrade to Rsnapshot 1.6 then reconfigure rsnapshot and then upgrade to 1.9

Rsnapshot 2.3 (should solve upgrade pb)
Rsnapshot 2.2 (09/27/10)

Changes in 2.2:

solve rsnapshot.conf can not be edited using SMB/CIFS
solve rights problem for logs and also conf file

correct a typo

solve a problem in sending email script

A space usage report is sent by email

SOURCE TOTAL FILES FILES TRANS TOTAL MB MB TRANS LIST GEN TIME FILE XFER TIME
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
/c/Develop 125974 0 4685.78 0.00 0.001 seconds 0.000 seconds
/c/backup 184 0 94.80 0.00 0.001 seconds 0.000 seconds
du -csh /c/snapshot/hourly.0/ /c/snapshot/hourly.1/ /c/snapshot/hourly.2/ \
/c/snapshot/hourly.3/ /c/snapshot/hourly.4/ /c/snapshot/hourly.5/ \
/c/snapshot/daily.0/

4.8G /c/snapshot/hourly.0/
50M /c/snapshot/hourly.1/
120K /c/snapshot/hourly.2/
4.7G /c/snapshot/hourly.3/
50M /c/snapshot/hourly.4/
50M /c/snapshot/hourly.5/
168M /c/snapshot/daily.0/
9.8G total

you can disable email report in frontview gui

weekly and monthly snapshots are enabled

solved a bug where softlinks are used instead of hardlinks

correct logger error

Restart cron after install

create the log file and make it visible in addons-config

Installation Notes:

Now to change a settings you will need to :

Modify rsnapshot.conf in /addons-config/rsnapshot /

be carefull to use tabulation instead of spaces when configuring snapshots

Please do not use path to backup with symlinks :
/c/backup/ is a correct path
/backup/ is incorrect

backup /c/backup/ localhost/
backup /c/Develop/ localhost/
#backup /etc/ localhost/
#backup /usr/local/ localhost/
#backup /var/log/rsnapshot localhost/
#backup /etc/passwd localhost/
#backup /home/foo/My Documents/ localhost/
#backup /foo/bar/ localhost/ one_fs=1, rsync_short_args=-urltvpog
#backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_pgsql.sh localhost/postgres/