Thanks Chris! After thinking about it, it seems best to just delete a
whole day and make sure I'm fresh. Don't want to add another host, cuz
it's really the same host... the old one is going away. Thanks for your
thoughts.
b
Chris Shelton wrote:
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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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