Re: [gentoo-user] Hows this for rsnapshot cron jobs?
On 21/04/2013 22:49, Tanstaafl wrote: On 2013-04-21 4:32 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/2013 20:47, Tanstaafl wrote: 30 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf monthly 20 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly Only the last line is wrong - your monthly and yearly are equivalent.To be properly yearly, you need a month value in field 4. Oh, right (I added that interval myself, rsnapshot only comes with the hourly, daily weekly and monthly by default). So, if I wanted it to run at 8:20pm on Dec 31, it would be: 20 22 31 12 * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly Correct I'm not familiar with rsnapshot, I assume that package can deal with how many of each type of snapshot to retain in it's conf file? I see no crons to delete out of date snapshots. Correct, rsnapshot handles this. And, more as a nitpick than anything else, I always recommend that when a sysadmin adds a root cronjob, use crontab -e so it goes in /var/spool/cron, not /etc/crontab. Two benefits: - syntax checking when you save and quit - if you let portage, package managers, chef, puppet or whatever manage your global cronjobs in /etc/portage, then there's no danger that system will trash the stuff that you added there manually. I prefer doing things manually... so, nothing else manages my cron jobs. That said, I prefer to do this 'the gentoo way'... so is crontab -e the gentoo way? There's no gentoo way for this :-) Admittedly, things have changed over the years, most distros now have the equivalent of cron.daily etc that cron jobs get installed into, leaving the main /etc/crontab as a place to put the lastrun logic. It wasn't always like that though. If you ever move to puppet or similar to do your configs you'll want to revisit this. Meanwhile, as you do everything manually anyway, your current method seems to work just fine for you -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
[gentoo-user] Hows this for rsnapshot cron jobs?
Ok, my goal is to keep 3 'snapshots' per day (11:30am, 2:30pm and 5:30pm), 7 daily's (8:50pm), 4 weekly's (8:40pm), 12 monthly's (8:30pm), and 5 yearly's (8:20pm). My myhost1.conf has: intervalhourly 3 intervaldaily 7 intervalweekly 4 intervalmonthly 12 intervalyearly 5 And my /etc/crontab now looks like: # for vixie cron # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ # Global variables SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly 59 * * * *rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 9 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 19 4 * * 6 rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 29 5 1 * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons # # rsnapshot cronjobs # 30 11,14,17 * * * root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf sync; rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf hourly 50 20 * * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf daily 40 20 * * 6 rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf weekly 30 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf monthly 20 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly Does this look right? Thanks
Re: [gentoo-user] Hows this for rsnapshot cron jobs?
On 21/04/2013 20:47, Tanstaafl wrote: Ok, my goal is to keep 3 'snapshots' per day (11:30am, 2:30pm and 5:30pm), 7 daily's (8:50pm), 4 weekly's (8:40pm), 12 monthly's (8:30pm), and 5 yearly's (8:20pm). My myhost1.conf has: intervalhourly 3 intervaldaily 7 intervalweekly 4 intervalmonthly 12 intervalyearly 5 And my /etc/crontab now looks like: # for vixie cron # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/sys-process/vixie-cron/files/crontab-3.0.1-r4,v 1.3 2011/09/20 15:13:51 idl0r Exp $ # Global variables SHELL=/bin/bash PATH=/sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin MAILTO=root HOME=/ # check scripts in cron.hourly, cron.daily, cron.weekly and cron.monthly 59 * * * *rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.hourly 9 3 * * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.daily 19 4 * * 6 rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.weekly 29 5 1 * * rootrm -f /var/spool/cron/lastrun/cron.monthly */10 * * * * roottest -x /usr/sbin/run-crons /usr/sbin/run-crons # # rsnapshot cronjobs # 30 11,14,17 * * * root rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf sync; rsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf hourly 50 20 * * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf daily 40 20 * * 6 rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf weekly 30 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf monthly 20 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly Only the last line is wrong - your monthly and yearly are equivalent.To be properly yearly, you need a month value in field 4. I'm not familiar with rsnapshot, I assume that package can deal with how many of each type of snapshot to retain in it's conf file? I see no crons to delete out of date snapshots. And, more as a nitpick than anything else, I always recommend that when a sysadmin adds a root cronjob, use crontab -e so it goes in /var/spool/cron, not /etc/crontab. Two benefits: - syntax checking when you save and quit - if you let portage, package managers, chef, puppet or whatever manage your global cronjobs in /etc/portage, then there's no danger that system will trash the stuff that you added there manually. -- Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com
Re: [gentoo-user] Hows this for rsnapshot cron jobs?
On 2013-04-21 4:32 PM, Alan McKinnon alan.mckin...@gmail.com wrote: On 21/04/2013 20:47, Tanstaafl wrote: 30 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf monthly 20 20 1 * * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly Only the last line is wrong - your monthly and yearly are equivalent.To be properly yearly, you need a month value in field 4. Oh, right (I added that interval myself, rsnapshot only comes with the hourly, daily weekly and monthly by default). So, if I wanted it to run at 8:20pm on Dec 31, it would be: 20 22 31 12 * rootrsnapshot -c /etc/rsnapshot/myhost1.conf yearly I'm not familiar with rsnapshot, I assume that package can deal with how many of each type of snapshot to retain in it's conf file? I see no crons to delete out of date snapshots. Correct, rsnapshot handles this. And, more as a nitpick than anything else, I always recommend that when a sysadmin adds a root cronjob, use crontab -e so it goes in /var/spool/cron, not /etc/crontab. Two benefits: - syntax checking when you save and quit - if you let portage, package managers, chef, puppet or whatever manage your global cronjobs in /etc/portage, then there's no danger that system will trash the stuff that you added there manually. I prefer doing things manually... so, nothing else manages my cron jobs. That said, I prefer to do this 'the gentoo way'... so is crontab -e the gentoo way? ;)
