Use rsnapshot for HA backup

Installation
1

Hello, I set rsnapshot to backup the entire directory home /, I start rsnapshot with cron from root. In the backup I get .homeassistant without yaml configuration files, only the deps and tts folders. Please tell me why yaml files were not transferred?

2

Is it possible that you somehow excluded *.yaml in your rsnapshot configuration?

I am using rsnapshot, too, and all yaml files come across into the backup just fine.

3

Check the rsnapshot mailing list.

4

In this and the problem, in default config, changed only the schedule of making copies and snapshot_root. Include and exclude did not change.
Could you show your config rsnapshot?

5

Sure. Here come the relevant parts - without the comments. Please keep in mind that when copy&pasting any lines, you will have to replace the whitespace between the config key (left) and the config entry with a tab character.
This is running fine on “Ubuntu 16.04.3 LTS” with “rsnaphot 1.4.2-1”.

# rsnapshot.conf

config_version  1.2

snapshot_root   /var/mnt/backup/snapshots

cmd_cp          /bin/cp
cmd_rm          /bin/rm
cmd_rsync       /usr/bin/rsync
cmd_ssh         /usr/bin/ssh
cmd_logger      /usr/bin/logger
cmd_du          /usr/bin/du
cmd_rsnapshot_diff      /usr/bin/rsnapshot-diff

retain  hourly  3
retain  daily   7
retain  weekly  4
retain  monthly 6

verbose         4
loglevel        3
logfile         /var/log/rsnapshot.log
lockfile        /var/run/rsnapshot.pid

rsync_long_args         --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded --stats --no-human-readable
ssh_args                -o BatchMode=yes

exclude         .apdisk
exclude         .AppleDB/
exclude         .AppleDesktop/
exclude         .AppleDouble/
exclude         .DS_Store
exclude         .git/
exclude         .svn/
exclude         .synkron\.syncdb
exclude         .TemporaryItems/
exclude         "Network\ Trash\ Folder"/
exclude         "Temporary\ Items"/
exclude         Thumbs.db
exclude         Thumbs.dbi\:2fencryptable

backup  /opt/home-assistant/.homeassistant/     localhost/
backup  /opt/home-assistant/lib/python3.5/site-packages/libopenzwave-0.3.1-py3.5-linux-x86_64.egg/config/       localhost/
6

You’re running rsnapshot as root, so it can read all files?

Have you run it manually in test mode (-t) to see what it would do, or run it in very verbose (-V) mode, or even debug (-D) to see what it’s doing?

7

I start with /etc/cron.d/rsnapshot, cron also works as root?

00 3 *** root /usr/bin/rsnapshot daily
00 5 7 root /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly
00 12 1 root /usr/bin/rsnapshot monthly

sudo rsnapshot -t daily
echo 321 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
/bin/cp -al /mnt/backup/daily.0
/mnt/backup/daily.1
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
/home/ /mnt/backup/daily.0/localhost/
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded /etc/
/mnt/backup/daily.0/localhost/
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded
/usr/local/ /mnt/backup/daily.0/localhost/
touch /mnt/backup/daily.0/

I run manually sudo rsnapshot daily, a folder is created daily.0 and it does not have .yaml, and there are no files in the backup ~ / .ssh / where there should be ssh keys. I understand that there is not enough copying right?

8

I’d suggest the rsnapshot mailing lists as the best place to get help with rsnapshot.

However, your smallest interval is hourly, if you run anything else then it’s just a directory renaming process.

Remember that hourly, daily, weekly, and monthly are just tags - you don’t need to run them at those intervals.