rsnapshot

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 21:50 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:
> I read some info and I'm unsure about the parameter "interval"
> 
> I'd like do 24 backups every days and keeps its for 12 or 24 months.
> 
> 
> is it correct something like this?
> 
> interval   daily    1
> interval   weekly   4
> interval   monthly  12 (or 24)

The interval configuration confuses a lot of people.  To try to clear it
up, the parameter has been renamed to "retain" in rsnapshot 1.3.1.  As
the man page explains, it just specifies how many backups of each level
are retained.  You are responsible for invoking rsnapshot on the desired
schedule.  If you want hourly backups retained for 12 months, you would
use a single level "hourly" with 8760 (= 12 months / 1 hour) backups
retained:

retain	hourly	8760

-- 
Matt

Hallo, Pol,

Du meintest am 01.05.11:

> I read some info and I'm unsure about the parameter "interval"

> I'd like do 24 backups every days and keeps its for 12 or 24 months.

Do you want to keep all 24 backups per day for 365 days?

Then I'd prefer

   interval hourly 8760
   # called every hour

You can identify them by their time stamp.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

On Sunday 01 May 2011, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 21:50 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:
> >
> > is it correct something like this?
> >
> > interval   daily    1
> > interval   weekly   4
> > interval   monthly  12 (or 24)
>
> The interval configuration confuses a lot of people.  To try to clear
> it up, the parameter has been renamed to "retain" in rsnapshot 1.3.1.
>  As the man page explains, it just specifies how many backups of each
> level are retained.  [...]

BTW, are these interval strings fixed or can I just call it
interval   whatever   4
?

cu,
Rudi

On Sun, May 01, 2011 at 11:11:02PM +0200, R?diger Meier wrote:
> On Sunday 01 May 2011, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> > On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 21:50 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:
> > >
> > > is it correct something like this?
> > >
> > > interval   daily    1
> > > interval   weekly   4
> > > interval   monthly  12 (or 24)
> >
> > The interval configuration confuses a lot of people.  To try to clear
> > it up, the parameter has been renamed to "retain" in rsnapshot 1.3.1.
> >  As the man page explains, it just specifies how many backups of each
> > level are retained.  [...]
> 
> BTW, are these interval strings fixed or can I just call it
> interval   whatever   4

You can indeed call the interval/retain strings whatever you want.

Just be consistent between the names in the rsnapshot config and
the names you use when invoking rsnapshot (usually from cron).

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   David Keegel <djk@...>    http://www.cyber.com.au/users/djk/
    Cyber IT Solutions Pty. Ltd.      Linux & Unix Systems Administration

On Sun, 2011-05-01 at 22:53 +0200, Pol Hallen wrote:
> > The interval configuration confuses a lot of people.  To try to clear it
> up, the parameter has been renamed to "retain" in rsnapshot 1.3.1.
> 
> thank for the reply :-)
> 
> I can't upgrade rsnapshot (v. 1.3.0 debian old-stable) on this production
> server.
> 
> I need understand how apply "retain hourly 8760" in 1.3.0 version.

Just use the old name of the parameter, "interval", as Helmut showed.

-- 
Matt