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On 21/04/2013 20:47, Tanstaafl wrote: |
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> Ok, my goal is to keep 3 'snapshots' per day (11:30am, 2:30pm and |
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> 5:30pm), 7 daily's (8:50pm), 4 weekly's (8:40pm), 12 monthly's (8:30pm), |
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> and 5 yearly's (8:20pm). |
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> My myhost1.conf has: |
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> interval hourly 3 |
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> interval daily 7 |
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> interval weekly 4 |
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> interval monthly 12 |
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> interval yearly 5 |
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> And my /etc/crontab now looks like: |
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>> # for vixie cron |
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>> # $Header: |
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>> /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.3 |
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>> 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ |
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>> |
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>> # Global variables |
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>> SHELL=/bin/bash |
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>> PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin |
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>> MAILTO=root |
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>> HOME=/ |
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>> # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly |
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>> 59 * * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly |
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>> 9 3 * * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily |
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>> 19 4 * * 6 root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly |
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>> 29 5 1 * * root rm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly |
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>> */10 * * * * root test -x /usr/sbin/run-crons && |
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>> /usr/sbin/run-crons |
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>> # |
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>> # rsnapshot cronjobs |
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>> # |
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>> 30 11,14,17 * * * root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf |
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>> sync; rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf hourly |
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>> 50 20 * * * root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf daily |
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>> 40 20 * * 6 root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf weekly |
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>> 30 20 1 * * root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf monthly |
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>> 20 20 1 * * root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly |
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Only the last line is wrong - your monthly and yearly are equivalent.To |
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be properly yearly, you need a month value in field 4. |
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I'm not familiar with rsnapshot, I assume that package can deal with how |
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many of each type of snapshot to retain in it's conf file? I see no |
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crons to delete out of date snapshots. |
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And, more as a nitpick than anything else, I always recommend that when |
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a sysadmin adds a root cronjob, use crontab -e so it goes in |
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/var/spool/cron, not /etc/crontab. Two benefits: |
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- syntax checking when you save and quit |
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- if you let portage, package managers, chef, puppet or whatever manage |
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your global cronjobs in /etc/portage, then there's no danger that system |
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will trash the stuff that you added there manually. |
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Alan McKinnon |
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alan.mckinnon@×××××.com |
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