On Sat, 2004-03-13 at 01:28, Ed Wilts wrote: > On Sat, Mar 13, 2004 at 12:35:30AM +0000, > Here's my crontab entries: > > 50 10,12,14,16,18,20 * * * root rsnapshot -q hourly > 30 9 * * * root rsnapshot -q daily > 50 9 * * sun root rsnapshot -q weekly > 10 10 1 * * root rsnapshot -q monthly > > My intervals in rsnapshot.conf are as follows: > interval hourly 6 > interval daily 7 > interval weekly 4 > interval monthly 3 > > Also, rsnapshot handles the daily and weekly backups properly too. The > daily is just the oldest hourly from yesterday - the snapshots just > rotated through. I've got many "copies" of my data using very little > disk. It just runs by itself and I don't have to babysit it. > Occasionally rsync will spit out an error from files that are deleted in > progress (usually mail temp files) and I just delete those messages. That's clearer. I had thought the process once started just continued in a shell. What I had missed was it wanted a second root pw for the second line ans was just waiting. Should have read to the end of the howto I'd have noticed the crontab part and realised. I now realise that every time I do "rsnapshot hourly" I get a one shot. For my current needs I just need to script it to make it easy to run from a single command and crontab it when I'm a bit better organised. At the moment I just need to run it before shutting down the workstation. Also it sounds like you are pushing the backups to your backup machine, whereas I elected to pull to the workstation from the mail server. Regards Roger -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:redhat-list-request@xxxxxxxxxx?subject=unsubscribe https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
