Rsnapshot Reviews and details

Social recommendations and mentions

• Escaping Surveillance Capitalism, at Scale

  Two things I want to try this month are: https://mastodon.social/@chromakode/110936177254839251 https://rsnapshot.org/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Not openSUSE specific but what's the best backup utility?

  I'm using rsnapshot. It's based on rsync. It's fully automated and I make daily and monthly backups backup to my NAS. The biggest benefit of rsnapshot is that it uses hardlinks. So only changed files are backed up. It doesn't have a GUI though, you have to set a configuration file. Source: 11 months ago

• Newbie - How to (image) Backup a rasberry PI

  It's been a while but I think rsnapshot is what you're looking for. Source: 12 months ago

• Python Port of 600 Line Bash Script: rsync-time-machine.py for Rsync Backups

  The description sounds like it does largely the same job as rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/). What does yours do differently from rsnapshot? - Source: Hacker News / 12 months ago

• simple local backup software for Alma

  Rsync from cron or rsnapshot might be easier to manage incrementals. Source: about 1 year ago

• Best Simple Security Practices for Protecting Self and Tendies - Monthly Repost

  I use duplicati on windows and rsnapshot on linux. Free and open source software. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you manage personal data backups e.g. photos and videos

  Rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) and/or just plain rsync to a Linux machine running an md RAID5 array with LVM2 above the md array for creating/resizing/dropping partitions. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Offsite backup to avoid ransomeware best practices?

  I run a docker container with rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) on a synology device that pulls in data from mutiple sources over SSH. It automatically takes care about keeping multiple revisions / versions of files any way you configure it. Source: over 1 year ago

• The various scripts I use to back up my home computers using SSH and rsync

  His backup rotation algorithm is very close to what rsnapshot does. https://rsnapshot.org/. - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Which service to backup your important files ?

  Rsnapshot for data. Ansible [1] for config management no backing up configuration is not needed, just revert configuration changes in ansible and re-apply. Occasional libvirt VM snapshots before risky operations. Source: over 1 year ago

• Ask HN: How do you manage your important personal documents and other data?

  > where do you store and backup your personal data A RAID array of physical drives in a local PC. > How do you run your backups? Rsnapshot (https://rsnapshot.org/) driven from cron. > How do you manage encryption keys, etc? Stored in files on plural disks plus a printed to paper backup. > What considerations drove your solution? Must be 100% under my control -- "someone else's disks" must not ever be the primary... - Source: Hacker News / over 1 year ago

• Sync two local unRAID machines?

  See stackexhange question and rsnapshot which is written in perl and should work in 6.11 as perl is not included by default. Source: over 1 year ago

• To those who run their own bioinfo servers, what's your backup strategy?

  I do something very similar to this but use Rsnapshot instead of plain rsync. Then I upload the external rsnapshot volume to S3 glacier. Source: over 1 year ago

• What do ya'll use as a backup program? Looking for advice.

  Https://rsnapshot.org/ adds the necessary plumbing to rsync to make it work out of the box. Source: over 1 year ago

• Seeking Backup Solution Opinions

  I'm using rsnapshot, which keeps older backups in a hardlink tree in a fashion comparable to Time Machine (although retrieval is not quite as comfortable). It uses rsync internally, which should also be possible for backing up a Windows client, although I have no personal experience. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Ask HN: How do you backup before an upgrade (Linux)?

  I can describe my method that has worked well for a few decades but it might not be for everyone. Before planning a backup I first ensure all the files I care about are isolated into unique directories not shared by anything I don't care about. e.g. /data/something_unique /opt/something_unique /home/username/something_unique and so on. something_unique just being a unique directory that contains anything... - Source: Hacker News / almost 2 years ago

• What is your favourite Linux backup software and why?

  I use [rsnapshot](https://rsnapshot.org/) for backups. Rsnapshot is fast because rsync helps it to transfers only diffs (after the initial copy). It is also storage efficient as it automatically deduplicates between backups with the (EXT3/EXT4) file system build in functionality of hard links. Source: about 2 years ago

• Backup ZFS snapshots to a non-ZFS host

  If you want remote snapshots you could use rsnapshot (or one of the variants). Source: about 2 years ago

• University loses 77TB of research data due to backup error

  Rsnapshot is your friend. https://rsnapshot.org/. Source: over 2 years ago

• Use home server as backup server - software recommendation needed

  The problem with that will be your want of an image. While you could setup some sort of ultra privileged service account for the server to login to your PC with we don't really do images that way. Also if your server runs some sort of unix os the NTFS support to handle images probably is not going to be there. If I had your requirements I would try to split my drives into a smaller OS partition I could create a... Source: over 2 years ago

• 20 years of homelabs

  Backups, well my main backups are simply rsnapshot jobs that run hourly/daily/weekly. I backup the most critical things like /etc /var /home and /usr. These are just for the server data. Maybe I'm lucky? Or just good, I haven't had to rebuild a system from backups as a result of a failure in as long as I can remember. I know that community edition veeam is quite popular among homelabbers for backing up entire VMs.... Source: over 2 years ago