Talk:Rsnapshot
Unit files
Regarding the Rsnapshot#Automation, you can use native systemd functionality to prevent race conditions: Create separate unit files for each level of backup and add After directives for the higher levels. For example, the unit file rsnapshot-weekly.service will contain After=rsnapshot-daily.service rsnapshot-hourly.service. Seems like a much cleaner solution (and it makes worth using systemd over cron)
Flemingalexander (talk) 11:35, 19 August 2020 (UTC)
- Two points to this: a) the ordering should be reverse, i.e. longer interval runs before shorter interval (YMMV but check the rest of the wiki page), b) you can exploit dropins with just
cat >/etc/systemd/system/rsnapshot@weekly.service.d/40-order.conf <<EOD [Unit] After=rsnapshot@monthly.service EOD
- to avoid unit files replication. Werkov (talk) 08:51, 15 June 2021 (UTC)
Automation section
It seems the user need to create the unit file for weekly, monthly, etc... So, the page needs to be edited --Rickxyz 16:01, 23 April 2018 (UTC)
3.1 External Drives
Would it make sense to replace this section with a reference to the below section of /etc/rsnapshot.conf which seems to achieve the same objective?
# If no_create_root is enabled, rsnapshot will not automatically create the # snapshot_root directory. This is particularly useful if you are backing # up to removable media, such as a FireWire or USB drive. # no_create_root 1