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rsnapshot / rsnapshot.conf.default.in now has quite a few settings of the form @setting@, but there's no indication anywhere what those settings decode to. For example @CMD_CP@ doesn't seem to be ...
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I am trying to set up rsnapshot for backing up a remote server. However, I realize that my issue is with rsync (rsnapshot’s back-end), not with rsnapshot itself. Thus I am focusing the question on ...
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I've set up my backup using Rsnapshot. After 3 days I have this: 196 GB /backup 3 GB /backup/daily.0 191 GB /backup/daily.1 2 GB /backup/daily.2 Why is the 2nd backup the one with most data (...
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Every time I try running sudo rsnapshot -v alpha I get this type of error(it errors for every backup entry I have): ERROR: /usr/bin/rsync returned 255 while processing [email protected]:/etc/ ...
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The ArchWiki - rsnapshot page mentions creating multiple users with uid and gid set to 0 as a means of creating users that login remotely to perform backups. One thing you can do to mitigate the ...
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I have rsnapshot taking backups for me. However, each backup is the full size of the source data. It is not making hard links and instead is making new copies of ever single (unchanged) file on every ...
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I am using the answer in this post to part of my question: Proper way to set up rsnapshot over ssh However, this post is seven years old and also I have an additional question. I have the same ...
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I use rsnapshot to take regular, automated snapshots of the home directory on my desktop (which runs Ubuntu on sda) and save them to a spare internal harddrive (sdb). Occasionally, I manually copy (...
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I'm using rsnapshot to back up the computers on my home network. For years, I've been using Ext4-on-LUKS on USB hard disks and getting good results. Recently I added a Btrfs-on-LUKS disk to get the ...
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I have some old backups done by rsnapshot. The directories are: /backups/week.0 /backups/week.1 /backups/week.2 /backups/week.3 /backups/week.4 I'd like to keep only one copy and delete the others. ...
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Since rsnapshot is based on rsync I wanted to try to use rsnapshot on my client server to backup to a remote server. The Problem is I am unable to find proper informations to set this up. I now how to ...
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EDIT: the solution to this problem is the marked solution underneath + enabling PermitRootLogin without-password in /etc/ssh/sshd_config I'm trying to backup my entire system to my local server, but ...
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TL;DR Is there some configuration for rsnapshot (see versions below) that would allow me to restrict output to the shell commands, errors and start/finish notifications generated by rsnapshot itself, ...
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I have two linux servers; server two is a backup to server one where server two is NFS mounted to server one. I use rsnapshot on server one to copy from /data/ to the nfs mounted folder /bkup from ...
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Currently I use rsnapshot to backup data from one encrypted ext4 drive to another. My system opens a LUKS container on each drive and runs rsnapshot according to an hourly schedule. I'm intrigued by ...
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