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Meaning of Crossing filesystem boundaries, --one-file-system, etc

I'm planning to use rsnapshot to backup my whole Linux system, though I'm confused by -x option (same of one_fs in rsnapshot.conf). The man page says: -x one filesystem, don't cross partitions within each backup point I understand it's not a…
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Specifying remote directories to be excluded from rsnapshot backup

I've looked around a bit without finding an exact answer to my question, which is how to specify a directory to be excluded from only the remote filesystem backup. Say I've got two machines: a desktop (server) and a laptop. My home directory on each…
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Entries I can safely exclude doing backups

I'm planning a backup strategy based on rsnapshot. I want to do a full system backup excluding files and directories that would be useless for the restore to have a working system again. I already excluded: # System: exclude /dev/* exclude…
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Rsnapshot destination full - how to safely rerun?

I ran my Rsnapshot backup today but my external drive became full half-way through the incremental backup (I have about 20 incremental backups now). rsync: write failed on "": No space left on device (28) I now have an hourly.0 directory…
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root user denied access to .gvfs in rsnapshot?

I was running rsnapshot as root and I got the following error. Why would this happen? what is .gvfs? rsnapshot weekly slave-iv rsync: readlink_stat("/home/griff/.gvfs") failed:…
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Linux device-mapper & ext4: what happens when the COW table fills up?

Consider the following scenario: I use Linux device mapper to create a snapshot of an ext4 file system. The snapshot is mounted as read-only; the source volume is mounted as read-write. I read the snapshot, and simultaneously write (too much) to…
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Does Rsnapshot work on Fat32 filesystem?

Does Rsnapshot work on the Fat32 filesystem? I get the impression from Rsnapshots homepage that it does, but then I read here that it doesn't. So I'm not sure what to think.
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Can I do a "test run" with rsnapshot?

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?
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Faking rsnapshot initial backup

I'm currently using plain and flat rsync to backup my files, meaning I have no incremental backups. A few days ago I became aware of the existence of rsnapshot and after looking at the man page I came to the conclusion that this is a great tool and…
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Proper way to set up rsnapshot over ssh

I have two Debian 8 servers: Server A: at home, lots of storage Server B: vps at commercial host, running web and mail services Both are pet projects, not business stuff. Server B runs rsnapshot which works fine. Server A and B can SSH to each…
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Rsnapshot via SSH speed issue

I am trying to backup bunch of desktops running RedHat 6.4 (i86_64) LVM on the top of ext4 to our file server running RedHat using rsnapshot and ssh. I am on 1GbE. I am finding the speed of the first back up abysmal. It takes me about 1 hour to push…
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Control how long Rsnapshot keeps a file after being deleted

I have an Rsnapshotting local server that takes snapshots of folders of miscellaneous computers within the local LAN. There are daily, weekly, monthly and yearly snapshots. So somebody puts a file into one of those folders being monitored by…
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Kill and resume a rsnapshot backup properly

Suppose that after starting a rsnapshot backup on my laptop I notice that it will take too long time and that I have to shutdown the laptop in a few minutes. Is there a way to quit rsnapshot without messing up the running backup and resume it later…
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How do I backup via rsync to a remote machine, preserving permissions and ownership?

Drive A is 2TB in a closet at home. Drive B is 2TB in my office at work. I'd like drive A to be the one I use regularly and to have rsync mirror A to B nightly/weekly. The problem I have with this is that multiple users have stuff on A. I have root…
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rsnapshot without using rm/cp to rotate hourly intervals

Rsnapshot is a great tool, and I've been using it for years. I have discovered that my backups now take a very long time: 80 minutes. And I repeat that every 4 hours. After looking in the log, most of this time is spent removing the last hourly…
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