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Hello,

I use rsnapshot 1.3.1 on a debian lenny system. I want to make twice a
day a backup, every 6 days, 4 weeks and 3 month. In rsnapshot.conf:
interval hourly 2
interval daily 6
interval weekly 4
interval monthly 3

In crontab:
00 12 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
15 19 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
00 2 * * 2-7 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily
00 22 * * 0 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot weekly
00 15 * 1 * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot monthly

The result until now is:
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 150 2010-02-11 02:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2010-02-10 14:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 13:12 daily.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-09 13:08 daily.1/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-08 13:21 daily.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-06 13:01 daily.3/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-05 13:17 daily.4/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-04 13:11 daily.5/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 20:33 hourly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-18 20:12 hourly.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-01 13:16 weekly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-25 13:09 weekly.1/

As far as I can see the setup works fine only daily.1 is not available.
If I take a look at the logfile there should be a daily.1 directory but
it is not available. (I don't understand hourly.2. Perhaps I made a
mistake in the configuration but I think I already removed once a
hourly.2 directory)

The logfile:
10/Feb/2010:12:00:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[10/Feb/2010:12:00:01] echo 13919 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[10/Feb/2010:12:00:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] cmd_preexec "/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec"
returned 2
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] mv /snapshots/hourly.0/ /snapshots/hourly.1/
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] mkdir -m 0755 -p /snapshots/hourly.0/
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/samba/ /samba/ /snapshots/hourly.0/samba/
[10/Feb/2010:13:06:55] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/vmail/ /vmail/ /snapshots/hourly.0/vmail/
[10/Feb/2010:13:10:10] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/dbbackup/ /dbbackup/
/snapshots/hourly.0/dbbackup/
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] touch /snapshots/hourly.0/
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.postexec
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly:
completed, but with some warnings

[10/Feb/2010:19:15:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[10/Feb/2010:19:15:01] echo 18968 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[10/Feb/2010:19:15:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec
[10/Feb/2010:20:05:25] cmd_preexec "/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec"
returned 1
[10/Feb/2010:20:05:25] /bin/rm -rf /snapshots/hourly.1/
[10/Feb/2010:20:14:51] mv /snapshots/hourly.0/ /snapshots/hourly.1/
[10/Feb/2010:20:14:51] mkdir -m 0755 -p /snapshots/hourly.0/
[10/Feb/2010:20:14:51] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/samba/ /samba/ /snapshots/hourly.0/samba/
[10/Feb/2010:20:29:28] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/vmail/ /vmail/ /snapshots/hourly.0/vmail/

Any ideas why there is no hourly.1 directory?


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Sorry serious mistakes in the description of my problem. This one is
better, forget the previous. Sorry.

I use rsnapshot 1.3.1 on a debian lenny system. I want to make twice a
day a backup, every 6 days, 4 weeks and 3 month. In rsnapshot.conf:
interval hourly 2
interval daily 6
interval weekly 4
interval monthly 3

In crontab:
00 12 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
15 19 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
00 2 * * 2-7 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily
00 22 * * 0 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot weekly
00 15 * 1 * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot monthly

The result until now is:
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 150 2010-02-11 02:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2010-02-10 14:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 13:12 daily.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-09 13:08 daily.1/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-08 13:21 daily.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-06 13:01 daily.3/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-05 13:17 daily.4/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-04 13:11 daily.5/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 20:33 hourly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-18 20:12 hourly.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-01 13:16 weekly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-25 13:09 weekly.1/

As far as I can see the setup works fine only hourly.1 is not available.
If I take a look at the logfile there should be a hourly.1 directory but
it is not available. (I don't understand hourly.2. Perhaps I made a
mistake in the configuration but I think I already removed once a
hourly.2 directory.)

The logfile:
10/Feb/2010:12:00:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[10/Feb/2010:12:00:01] echo 13919 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[10/Feb/2010:12:00:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] cmd_preexec "/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec"
returned 2
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] mv /snapshots/hourly.0/ /snapshots/hourly.1/
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] mkdir -m 0755 -p /snapshots/hourly.0/
[10/Feb/2010:12:52:15] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/samba/ /samba/ /snapshots/hourly.0/samba/
[10/Feb/2010:13:06:55] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/vmail/ /vmail/ /snapshots/hourly.0/vmail/
[10/Feb/2010:13:10:10] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/dbbackup/ /dbbackup/
/snapshots/hourly.0/dbbackup/
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] touch /snapshots/hourly.0/
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.postexec
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[10/Feb/2010:13:12:25] WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly:
completed, but with some warnings

[10/Feb/2010:19:15:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[10/Feb/2010:19:15:01] echo 18968 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[10/Feb/2010:19:15:01] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec
[10/Feb/2010:20:05:25] cmd_preexec "/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec"
returned 1
[10/Feb/2010:20:05:25] /bin/rm -rf /snapshots/hourly.1/
[10/Feb/2010:20:14:51] mv /snapshots/hourly.0/ /snapshots/hourly.1/
[10/Feb/2010:20:14:51] mkdir -m 0755 -p /snapshots/hourly.0/
[10/Feb/2010:20:14:51] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/samba/ /samba/ /snapshots/hourly.0/samba/
[10/Feb/2010:20:29:28] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/vmail/ /vmail/ /snapshots/hourly.0/vmail/

Any ideas why there is no hourly.1 directory?


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Hallo, Ruud,

Du meintest am 11.02.10:


In crontab:
00 12 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
15 19 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
00 2 * * 2-7 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily

The result until now is:
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 150 2010-02-11 02:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2010-02-10 14:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 13:12 daily.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-09 13:08 daily.1/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-08 13:21 daily.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-06 13:01 daily.3/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-05 13:17 daily.4/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-04 13:11 daily.5/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 20:33 hourly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-18 20:12 hourly.2/

[...]


As far as I can see the setup works fine only hourly.1 is not
available.

Look again now (some time after 12:00).

The hourly job runs at 12:00 and 19:15, the daily job runs at 2:00

You have shown the backups at 11:57 (or some minutes earlier). At that
time the daily job has moved hourly.1 to daily.0 - that's ok.

By the way: you should delete or rename hourly.2 - it seems to be an
orphan.

Viele Gruesse!
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On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:37:00PM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote:
Du meintest am 11.02.10:

In crontab:
00 12 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
15 19 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
00 2 * * 2-7 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily

The result until now is:
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 150 2010-02-11 02:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2010-02-10 14:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 13:12 daily.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-09 13:08 daily.1/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-08 13:21 daily.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-06 13:01 daily.3/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-05 13:17 daily.4/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-04 13:11 daily.5/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 20:33 hourly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-18 20:12 hourly.2/

[...]


As far as I can see the setup works fine only hourly.1 is not
available.

Look again now (some time after 12:00).

The hourly job runs at 12:00 and 19:15, the daily job runs at 2:00

You have shown the backups at 11:57 (or some minutes earlier). At that
time the daily job has moved hourly.1 to daily.0 - that's ok.

I agree with Helmut.
In case it's not clear, at 02:00 (when the daily runs) hourly.1 will
be moved to daily.0 as part of the rotation. That means there will
be no hourly.1 from 02:00 to 12:00 (when the next hourly runs).

You may find it works better to schedule one of your hourly rsnapshots
soon-ish after 2am (perhaps 03:00).

By the way: you should delete or rename hourly.2 - it seems to be an
orphan.

I agree.
You could rename hourly.2 to weekly.2 - it looks about the right age for
that. Or if you are not sure whether hourly.2 is okay, then delete it.
(Especially since your oldest weekly is destined to become a monthly.)

PS: I think you also have an error in this crontab entry:
00 15 * 1 * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot monthly

I believe that will run once every day in January, but not in any other
month. That won't become apparent until you have a weekly.3 (because
until then, rsnapshot monthly has nothing to do), but I suggest you
change the cron entry before March 1, so it rotates a monthly then.

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I found it but I don't know the reason. There is a hourly.1 but with the
daily job it is moved to daily.0.

Last hourly of the day:
[12/Feb/2010:20:01:25] cmd_preexec "/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.preexec"
returned 1
[12/Feb/2010:20:01:25] /bin/rm -rf /snapshots/hourly.1/
[12/Feb/2010:20:10:25] mv /snapshots/hourly.0/ /snapshots/hourly.1/
[12/Feb/2010:20:10:25] mkdir -m 0755 -p /snapshots/hourly.0/
[12/Feb/2010:20:10:25] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/samba/ /samba/ /snapshots/hourly.0/samba/
[12/Feb/2010:20:24:33] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/vmail/ /vmail/ /snapshots/hourly.0/vmail/
[12/Feb/2010:20:28:24] /usr/bin/rsync -a --quiet --acls
--link-dest=/snapshots/hourly.1/dbbackup/ /dbbackup/
/snapshots/hourly.0/dbbackup/
[12/Feb/2010:20:29:03] touch /snapshots/hourly.0/
[12/Feb/2010:20:29:03] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot.postexec
[12/Feb/2010:20:29:03] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[12/Feb/2010:20:29:03] WARNING: /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly:
completed, but with some warnings

The daily job:
[13/Feb/2010:02:00:02] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily: started
[13/Feb/2010:02:00:02] echo 14659 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[13/Feb/2010:02:00:02] /bin/rm -rf /snapshots/daily.5/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.4/ /snapshots/daily.5/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.3/ /snapshots/daily.4/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.2/ /snapshots/daily.3/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.1/ /snapshots/daily.2/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.0/ /snapshots/daily.1/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/hourly.1/ /snapshots/daily.0/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed
successfully

As you can see: "mv /snapshots/hourly.1/ /snapshots/daily.0/". It seems
to be not correct

(I already saw and corrected the wrong monthly configuration of the
conjob, but thanks for noticing)

On 11-2-2010 21:33, David Keegel wrote:
On Thu, Feb 11, 2010 at 01:37:00PM +0100, Helmut Hullen wrote:

Du meintest am 11.02.10:


In crontab:
00 12 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
15 19 * * * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly
00 2 * * 2-7 root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily


The result until now is:
drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 150 2010-02-11 02:07 ./
drwxr-xr-x 25 root root 4096 2010-02-10 14:05 ../
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 13:12 daily.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-09 13:08 daily.1/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-08 13:21 daily.2/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-06 13:01 daily.3/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-05 13:17 daily.4/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-04 13:11 daily.5/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-02-10 20:33 hourly.0/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 45 2010-01-18 20:12 hourly.2/

[...]



As far as I can see the setup works fine only hourly.1 is not
available.

Look again now (some time after 12:00).

The hourly job runs at 12:00 and 19:15, the daily job runs at 2:00

You have shown the backups at 11:57 (or some minutes earlier). At that
time the daily job has moved hourly.1 to daily.0 - that's ok.

I agree with Helmut.
In case it's not clear, at 02:00 (when the daily runs) hourly.1 will
be moved to daily.0 as part of the rotation. That means there will
be no hourly.1 from 02:00 to 12:00 (when the next hourly runs).

You may find it works better to schedule one of your hourly rsnapshots
soon-ish after 2am (perhaps 03:00).


By the way: you should delete or rename hourly.2 - it seems to be an
orphan.

I agree.
You could rename hourly.2 to weekly.2 - it looks about the right age for
that. Or if you are not sure whether hourly.2 is okay, then delete it.
(Especially since your oldest weekly is destined to become a monthly.)

PS: I think you also have an error in this crontab entry:
00 15 * 1 * root test -x /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot &&
/usr/local/bin/rsnapshot monthly

I believe that will run once every day in January, but not in any other
month. That won't become apparent until you have a weekly.3 (because
until then, rsnapshot monthly has nothing to do), but I suggest you
change the cron entry before March 1, so it rotates a monthly then.



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Hallo, Ruud,

Du meintest am 13.02.10:

I found it but I don't know the reason. There is a hourly.1 but with
the daily job it is moved to daily.0.

That's ok!

[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.0/ /snapshots/daily.1/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/hourly.1/ /snapshots/daily.0/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed
successfully

As you can see: "mv /snapshots/hourly.1/ /snapshots/daily.0/". It
seems to be not correct

That's ok! What do you expect instead?

[full quote deleted]

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

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I assume that hourly, daily, weekly etc are completely separate backup
sets. Apparently that is not the case.

Op 13-2-2010 21:28, Helmut Hullen schreef:
Hallo, Ruud,

Du meintest am 13.02.10:


I found it but I don't know the reason. There is a hourly.1 but with
the daily job it is moved to daily.0.

That's ok!


[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/daily.0/ /snapshots/daily.1/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] mv /snapshots/hourly.1/ /snapshots/daily.0/
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] rm -f /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[13/Feb/2010:02:07:46] /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot daily: completed
successfully


As you can see: "mv /snapshots/hourly.1/ /snapshots/daily.0/". It
seems to be not correct

That's ok! What do you expect instead?

[full quote deleted]

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

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Hi Ruud,

On Saturday 13 Feb 2010 21:25:27 Ruud Baart wrote:
I assume that hourly, daily, weekly etc are completely separate backup
sets. Apparently that is not the case.

There's a very good explanation of how it works here:

http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

This is the system that rsnapshot is based on. Note the bit about using the
copy (cp) command to preserve hard links.

Hope that helps

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