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rubo77
Asked: 2015-10-08 06:21:20 +0800 CST

Configuring rsnapshot to only daily backups

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I configured rsnapshot so it would not backup hourly by commenting out the hourly cronjob in /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot:

#0 */4          * * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly
30 3    * * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily
0  3    * * 1           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly
30 2    1 * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly

But this gives the error:

/.snapshots/hourly.5 not present (yet), nothing to copy

And it doesn't backup anything any more ever since.

As a workaround, I called this manually now once:

/usr/bin/rsnapshot -v hourly

But how do I configure this correctly so backups only are done once a day at 3:30 am?

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Removing the cron job is not enough. You also have to adapt the config file to reflect the change. Remove (or uncomment) the following line from /etc/rsnapshot.conf:

    retain  hourly  24

    Then your backups should work again.

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