Hi a and the rest of the mailing list,

At home I have a freenas device I store all my media, when I need something I just access the file server. But that's how I do it, and it's not ideal, but I tend to be lazy with my setup at home.

To directly answer the question, I believe rsnapshot is not receiving support currently. https://github.com/rsnapshot/rsnapshot/issues/191

I think the go to application for file based incremental backup for user-created files is Back In Time. https://github.com/bit-team/backintime

For Ubuntu you can install the PPA:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:bit-team/stable
sudo apt update
sudo apt install backintime-qt4
Here is the documentation: https://backintime.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

I'd be interested in hearing feedback from others if Back In Time isn't a good program. I have had very limited experience with it.

Regards,

Jared


On 5/28/19 4:08 PM, a wrote:
Hi

I am planning to install "rsnapshot" before I continue is this a good incremental backup program?

I have uncommented the 1st, hourly, and 2nd, daily choices some results, any suggestions? Thanks. a

RESULTS:

rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -t weekly
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Interval "weekly" unknown, check /etc/rsnapshot.conf
root@alap:/home/a# rsnapshot -t daily
echo 6300 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -t daily
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Interval "daily" unknown, check /etc/rsnapshot.conf
root@alap:/home/a# rsnapshot -t hourly
echo 6301 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
rsnapshot encountered an error! The program was invoked with these options:
/usr/bin/rsnapshot -t hourly
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
ERROR: Interval "hourly" unknown, check /etc/rsnapshot.conf
root@alap:/home/a# snapshot configtest
bash: snapshot: command not found
root@alap:/home/a# rsnapshot configtest
Syntax OK
root@alap:/home/a#

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