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Thanks Chris! After thinking about it, it seems best to just delete a |
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whole day and make sure I'm fresh. Don't want to add another host, cuz |
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it's really the same host... the old one is going away. Thanks for your |
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thoughts. |
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Chris Shelton wrote: |
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> Ben, |
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> On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 at 8:20am, Ben Munat wrote: |
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>> I'm running rsnapshot 1.29 on a gentoo box, backing up a remote gentoo |
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>> server. I recently moved my server to a new machine. After switching the |
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>> domain name to point at the new machine, I found that files and |
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>> directories from the old machine are still in my daily.0 backup each |
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>> morning. They are mixed with the new files and directories. |
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> I would suggest either using a different value for snapshot_root in |
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> your rsnapshot.conf, or a new backup entry with a different |
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> destination. |
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> I am doing something similar on a newly setup gentoo server, and have |
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> the snapshot for each remote system sent to a separate directory: |
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> (from rsnapshot.conf) |
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> backup root@hotdog:/home/ hotdog/ +rsync_long_args=--bwlimit=6000 |
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> ... |
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> backup root@cheddar:/home/ cheddar/ +rsync_long_args=--bwlimit=6000 |
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> ... |
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> backup root@batboy:/home/ batboy/ +rsync_long_args=--bwlimit=6000 |
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> This results in the following directory layout: |
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> pickles portage # ls -l /snapshots/daily.0/ |
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> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 14 17:08 batboy |
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> drwxr-xr-x 12 root root 4096 Oct 12 03:59 cheddar |
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> drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 4096 Oct 11 19:56 hotdog |
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> drwxr-xr-x 11 root root 4096 Oct 11 16:22 localhost |
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>> My rsync_long_args are: |
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>> rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative \ |
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>> --delete-excluded --ignore-errors |
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> Those look fairly standard. |
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>> and I see these args in the log. |
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>> The backup does finish with warnings, but it almost always does... it's |
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>> hard to backup a mail directory tree without something changing! But, |
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>> ignore_errors is supposed to override that and delete anyway right? |
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>> Hoping someone can help because it looks like my old and new file |
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>> systems will remain intermingled forever at this rate... effectively |
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>> making the backup useless (or at least a major pain to restore). |
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>> I was thinking about deleting everything under the server's directory in |
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>> daily.0. That should pull everything fresh right? Sucks to have to pull |
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>> all the files again, but I'm not seeing any other way right now. |
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> I don't see any way around that either. |
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> chris |
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