Comments on: How To Backup Remote Linux Host Using rsnapshot rsync Utility

By: Peter Snow

Peter Snow — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 02:59:25 +0000

I thought your other tutorials were great. I followed many of them on first reading.

Unfortunately though, this one seems more challenging to read. It really needs a lot of clarification. For example, you don’t go into enough detail for me, concerning which machine the program should be installed on (actually, I only assumed that there was a program to install and stumbled on how to do it), and which machine the commands should be run on and from which and to which machine the backup is coming and what is the destination machine!

Your rsnapshot.conf seemed to have only one line in it, where as mine had loads. Do I replace all of mine with your ONE? Your one line looked more like a shell command than a config file line? Doesn’t make any sense at all.

Maybe after studying carefully for an hour I could unravel this and get it working, but if rewritten to the standard of your other tutorials, I could probably follow it in ten minutes.

Overall, I love your website and find it very useful. Please don’t be discouraged!

Thanks.

By: Patrick

Patrick — Fri, 07 Jan 2011 17:28:38 +0000

I haven’t understood why I need to add “hourly” to manually test if rsnapshot is correctly configured.

# /usr/local/bin/rsnapshot hourly

I just want to do it once, and not hourly…

Also, if I run this command, is it going to run every hour without stopping ? It is not clear.

thanks

By: How to Backup Linux? 15 rsync Command Examples

How to Backup Linux? 15 rsync Command Examples — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 06:04:27 +0000

[...] You can also use rsnapshot utility (that uses rsync) to backup local linux server, or backup remote linux server. [...]

By: Marko

Marko — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 09:23:27 +0000

So here is web page where I made a drawing of my problem:
http://www.pc-help-ambrozic.com/config/

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 20:32:15 +0000

Hi,
I am able to backup files and folders from Debian machine to windows machine.
I would like to know how to backup the entire hdd from Debian machine to usb-hdd atached to windows machine?
It would be nice to know how to do this.
How to do daily snapshots of linux hdd – I mean exact copy of linux hdd.
Is it possible to create a snapshot and then just incremental backup to that snapshot?
I will crate webpage with drawing of my configuration if someone is intresting in giveing any advice about my questions…

Marko