rsnapshot

Hey,

I'm using rsnapshot for backup of my desktop and server. For both I have
directories to exclude from the backup but different ones. I'll make an
example:

I want to exclude "/dir1" and "/dir2" from the server backups and
"/dir3" from the desktop backups. I specify those with the
"exclude"-setting. Now what happens is that rsnapshot excludes "/dir1",
"/dir2" and "/dir3" from both my server and desktop. Luckily up to now
"/dir1" and "/dir2" didn't exist on the desktop and "/dir3" didn't exist
on the server. But what happens, wenn there is a "/dir3" on the server
that I want to backup?

So my question is: How can I specify exclude rules on a per-host or
per-backup-command basis?

Thank you!

Joachim

Hey,

I'm using rsnapshot for backup of my desktop and server. For both I have
directories to exclude from the backup but different ones. I'll make an
example:

I want to exclude "/dir1" and "/dir2" from the server backups and
"/dir3" from the desktop backups. I specify those with the
"exclude"-setting. Now what happens is that rsnapshot excludes "/dir1",
"/dir2" and "/dir3" from both my server and desktop. Luckily up to now
"/dir1" and "/dir2" didn't exist on the desktop and "/dir3" didn't exist
on the server. But what happens, wenn there is a "/dir3" on the server
that I want to backup?

So my question is: How can I specify exclude rules on a per-host or
per-backup-command basis?

Thank you!

Joachim

Hallo, Joachim,

Du meintest am 23.01.10:

> I'm using rsnapshot for backup of my desktop and server. For both I
> have directories to exclude from the backup but different ones. I'll
> make an example:

> I want to exclude "/dir1" and "/dir2" from the server backups and
> "/dir3" from the desktop backups. I specify those with the
> "exclude"-setting.

Take 2 rsnapshot config files, with different backup directories,  
different log files, different PID files, different cronjobs.

Viele Gruesse!
Helmut

On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 4:58 AM, Helmut Hullen <Hullen@...> wrote:

>> I want to exclude "/dir1" and "/dir2" from the server backups and
>> "/dir3" from the desktop backups. I specify those with the
>> "exclude"-setting.
>
> Take 2 rsnapshot config files, with different backup directories,
> different log files, different PID files, different cronjobs.
>
> Viele Gruesse!
> Helmut

Or use one master config file with all the default settings: rsync
arguments, some basic excludes, hourly/daily/weekly settings, etc.
Then write small custom files that "include" that basic file, and
differ as needed. I use this to have different hosts backed up to
different target directories and use different lock files.

On 23 January 2010 10:48, Joachim Neu <email@...> wrote:

>
> So my question is: How can I specify exclude rules on a per-host or
> per-backup-command basis?


Have a look at the example rsnapshot.conf backup rules, e.g.:

#backup root@.../  example.com/    exclude=mtab,exclude=core

You can add custom options on that line, in a 4th column.
Note that the use of exclude options is exclusive here. If you have general
exclude rules for say /dev/ and /sys, you'll need to repeat them on a per
backup-rule basis.

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On Sat, Jan 23, 2010 at 02:24:54PM +0100, Serge van Ginderachter wrote:

> Have a look at the example rsnapshot.conf backup rules, e.g.:
> #backup root@.../  example.com/    exclude=mtab,exclude=core
> You can add custom options on that line, in a 4th column.
> Note that the use of exclude options is exclusive here. If you have general
> exclude rules for say /dev/ and /sys, you'll need to repeat them on a per
> backup-rule basis.

The fourth argument can also be +rsync_long_args thus (I've substituted
a linebreak for tabs to make it easier to read) which *adds* rsync args
instead of replacing them:

backup
  root@...:/
  somehost/
  +rsync_long_args=--exclude=/web/somesite/db/ --exclude=/var/log/apache2/ --exclude=/xen-images/ 

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