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