Can I do a "test run" with rsnapshot?

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I occasionally make changes to my rsnapshot.conf and I'm wondering if there's any way I can do a test run that is sync-ed to a location other than the normal flow... something that's not an interval. Is this possible? how?

score 6 · Answer 1 · answered Jan 04 '18 at 00:27

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Testing configuration sudo rsnapshot configtest should get you a Syntax ok
Dry testing will be sudo rsnapshot -t daily
Complete test will be sudo rsnapshot daily

You can do the same with either hourly|weekly|monthly

answered Jan 04 '18 at 00:27

Philippe Gachoud

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Worked for me. However the syntax was ok (from a rsnapshot point of view) but not from a rsync point of view, so I add to try `rsnapshot -t sync` (sync is where the actual work happen) – mb14 Dec 11 '18 at 10:51

score 5 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 29 '11 at 18:12

I don't have an rsnapshot setup to test this on. Be careful.

Personally, I think that the best thing to do is to carefully evaluate the output of rsnapshot -t interval. However if you want to actually move files, one way to do it might be to create an alternate config file that is identical to your real config file but with a different snapshot_root such as:

snapshot_root   /test/backup/path

And then you can run your test using

rsnapshot -c rsnapshot.test.conf interval0

where interval0 is your lowest order interval.

Can I do a "test run" with rsnapshot?

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