Rsnapshot Backups Server

# rpm -ivh http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-8.noarch.rpm

# yum install rsnapshot

# mkdir /etc/rsnapshot

# mkdir /srv/backups/snapshots

# mkdir /var/log/rsnapshot

Setting up SSH passwordless login

# ssh-keygen -t dsa

# cat ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub | ssh root@remote_host "cat >> ~/.ssh/authorized_keys2"

# chmod 700 .ssh; chmod 400 .ssh/authorized_keys2

Configuring rsnapshot hosts

# vim /etc/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf

config_version 1.2

snapshot_root /srv/backups/snapshots/laptop/

cmd_cp /bin/cp

cmd_rm /bin/rm

cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync

cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh

cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger

cmd_du /usr/bin/du

interval daily 7

interval weekly 4

interval monthly 3

verbose 2

loglevel 4

logfile /var/log/rsnapshot/laptop.log

exclude_file /etc/rsnapshot/laptop.exclude

rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --delete-excluded

lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid

backup root@laptop:/ laptop/

backup_script /etc/rsnapshot/laptop.dump_databases.sh laptop_databases/

# rsnapshot configtest

Host .exclude file

# vim /etc/rsnapshot/laptop.exclude

+ /boot

+ /etc

+ /home

+ /opt

+ /root

+ /usr

+ /usr/java

+ /usr/local

- /usr/*

- /var/cache

+ /var

+ /srv

- /*

crontab

15 02 * * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf daily

15 03 * * Sun /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf weekly

30 03 1 * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/rsnapshot.conf monthly

0 */4          * * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly 30 3   * * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily 0  3   * * 1           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly 30 2   1 * *           root    /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly

• config_version 1.2 = Configuration file version
• snapshot_root = Destination on where to store snapshots
• cmd_cp = Path to copy command
• cmd_rm = Path to remove command
• cmd_rsync = Path to rsync
• cmd_ssh = Path to SSH
• cmd_logger = Path to shell command interface to syslog
• cmd_du = Path to disk usage command
• interval hourly = How many hourly backups to keep.
• interval daily = How many daily backups to keep.
• interval weekly = How many weekly backups to keep.
• interval monthly = How many monthly backups to keep.
• verbose = Self-explanatory
• loglevel = Self-explanatory
• logfile = Path to logfile
• ssh_args = Optional SSH arguments, such as a different port (-p )
• exclude_file = Path to the exclude file (will be explained in more detail)
• rsync_long_args = Long arguments to pass to rsync
• lockfile = Self-explanatory
• backup = Full path to what to be backed up followed by relative path of placement.
• backup_script = Full path to an executable script followed by relative path of placement.