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Poma
Asked: 2011-12-23 05:21:43 +0800 CST

How to make rsnapshot backups in different locations?

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I have backup server that gathers backups from few other servers. I want to make directory structure like this

/backup/snapshots/<hostname>/<period>.0/<files>

Instead of default 

/backup/snapshots/<period>.0/<hostname>/<files>

How to do this? I tried to specify parameter

backup  root@remote-host:/backup/snapshots/hourly.0        .       snapshot_root=/backup/snapshots/myhost/

but it doesn't work

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2 Answers

  1. You need to use another configuration file, where you can set different snapshot_root directory (and other backup params).

    For example /etc/rsnapshot.additional.conf

    After what you need to add to your rsnapshot cron file (if you use Ubuntu - you can find it /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot).

    30 3    * * *       root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily
10 0  3    * * 1       root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly
11 30 2    1 * *       root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly

    lines, like this

    30 3    * * *       root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.additional.conf daily
10 0  3    * * 1       root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.additional.conf weekly
11 30 2    1 * *       root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot.additional.conf monthly

    Which means that rsnapshot will be call two times with different config file and make two backups

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  2. Best Answer

    As far as I can tell, rsnapshots only configuration for this is the "snapshot_root" directive.

    Man page: "snapshot_root Local filesystem path to save all snapshots"

    These are a few examples from: https://askubuntu.com/questions/20603/what-does-snapshot-root-do

    snapshot_root /var/backups/me

    ...

    backup /home/me/movies/ /media/
    backup /home/me/music/ /media/
    backup /home/me/drafts/ /documents/

    After running rsnapshot hourly, for example, the snapshots would be stored under

    /var/backups/me/hourly.0/media
    /var/backups/me/hourly.0/documents

    So, pretty much what I'm saying is that I belive there's no easy way of changing that, and that you might need to change the source for this, but of course I can be wrong and if that's the case, please ignore this answer.

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