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aneuryzm
Asked: 2011-01-09 05:31:19 +0800 CST

rsnapshot intervals in configuration file

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A simple question about rsnapshot.

In order to perform daily backups I'm going to add lines to cron in my Ubuntu.

Then, why do I have also these lines in the rsnapshot.conf ?

#########################################
#           BACKUP INTERVALS            #
# Must be unique and in ascending order #
# i.e. hourly, daily, weekly, etc.      #
#########################################

interval        hourly  6
interval        daily   7
interval        weekly  4
#interval       monthly 3

If I use cron, should I disable them ? thanks

ps. I've just realized that in the crontab I still have "hourly" and "daily". Should I then uncomment only the one I use in the crontab ? And what's the point to specify hourly if it is already specified in cron ? I'm a bit confused.

# crontab -e
0 */4 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
30 23 * * * /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily
rsnapshot

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    The interval directives in your rsnapshot.conf are saying for the named backup (daily, weekly etc.) keep n copies.

    In the above, you are keeping the last 6 copies of your hourly backups, the last 7 copies of your daily backup etc.

    You then need to run the hourly, daily. etc backups using cron.

    In your example above you are running the hourly backup every 4 hours (6 times a day) and the daily backup once a day at 23:30.

    You need to uncomment the interval directives that you intend to use but uncommenting the onee you don't use shouldn't cause a problem.

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