Comments on: How To Set Red hat / CentOS Linux Remote Backup / Snapshot Server

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 15:49:52 +0000

Don’t you need to specify a username in the cron file? for a user file its not needed, but if its in /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot, you should need it.

By: Greg

Greg — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 22:58:06 +0000

Hi Narendra,
I am having similar issues with daily back ups. Did you ever get your problems resolved?

Greg

By: ubu_fan

ubu_fan — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:03:28 +0000

Thanks alot . .
Great Tutorial :)

By: Naveen

Naveen — Tue, 15 Mar 2011 22:00:43 +0000

U guys are the best, Great work.

By: iss

iss — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 12:09:42 +0000

Is there any way to do remote backup of system without root access (PermitRootLogin set to “no” in sshd_config)?

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 13:33:24 +0000

Both will backup database. However, with rsnapshot you can quickly select and restore backup based on days, week or month.

By: Patel ROcky

Patel ROcky — Mon, 21 Feb 2011 11:54:00 +0000

Hi Vivek,

In this how to u mentioned DB backup.

So while we are using mysqldump for DB backup and this shown method will be producing same result.
means suppose i have a db in /var/lib/mysql

so can i copy that directory as bakcup and when it will be needed……?

can i use it as backup…….

what is the difference between myqldump backup approach and this on which used in this article…..?

and what is the suggested method …..?

Regards,
Rocky

By: Abdul Basit

Abdul Basit — Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:38:42 +0000

use ssh-copy-id instead.
ssh-copy-id -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa.pub root@ns1.example.com

this saves the hazel.

By: Egor

Egor — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 10:08:53 +0000

>To backup mysql database files stored at /var/lib/mysql/, enter:
>backup root@mysql.example.com:/var/lib/mysql/ mysql.example.com/dbdump/

Is it really correct way to backup MySQL database without previous stopping server itself or at least blocking tables?

By: Jan

Jan — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 08:18:21 +0000

Maybe it’s not the best idea to use “scp -r” for data restore on the remote host – if you would like to keep the file permissions and also the ownership informations you shall use “scp -rp” (-p = preserve permissions) or “rsync -avH –progress /path/to/backupdir/ root@targethost:/path/to/restoredir” ;-)

But nevertheless it’s a great HOWTO which makes it also possible for beginners to manage simple backup strategies without keeping terms like “full”, “incremental” and “differential” backups in mind!

keep up the good work

By: Narendra

Narendra — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 15:32:48 +0000

Thanks for supporting Vivek.
I ‘m able to take backup hourly using cronjob and command line.
when i tried to run backup as daily m getting the below log info:
logs:
[08/Jan/2010:23:50:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: started
[08/Jan/2010:23:50:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily: ERROR: Lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid exists and so does its process, can not continue
[09/Jan/2010:00:00:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[09/Jan/2010:00:00:01] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: ERROR: Lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid exists and so does its process, can not continue
[09/Jan/2010:00:59:59] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[09/Jan/2010:00:59:59] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: ERROR: Lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid exists and so does its process, can not continue
[09/Jan/2010:01:00:17] /usr/bin/rsnapshot hourly: started
[09/Jan/2010:01:00:17] echo 27149 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
[09/Jan/2010:01:00:17] mkdir -m 0755 -p /media/disk/intrabackup/hourly.0/
Please help me out from this.

Thanks,
Narendra

By: alex domeny

alex domeny — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 13:02:11 +0000

Hi
I didn`t get the point

I need examples for the red-hat

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 11:29:20 +0000

No compress mode is used to store backup. So if you backup 20GB from remote server you are going to need 20-25GB for last 7 days.

By: Narendra

Narendra — Thu, 24 Dec 2009 09:21:21 +0000

Is will take backup of files/directories as it is or in some compress mode .
Thanks,
Narendra.

By: Vamsi

Vamsi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:02:57 +0000

Thanks..I am trying to set it up :)

By: Luca

Luca — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 21:27:41 +0000

Very thanks. It just work. Keep on it!

By: shital

shital — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:00:54 +0000

I am very satisfied

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 05:09:17 +0000

To test just enter the following:
rsnapshot -v hourly

And it will make backup from command line.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:29:11 +0000

The only reason I was using minutes was to confirm that the program was running correctly as a CRON job.

By: Vivek Gite

Vivek Gite — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:27:13 +0000

You do not need to run rsnapshot per minutes. Use hourly or daily settings.