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| rsbackup.cron(1) | General Commands Manual | rsbackup.cron(1) |
NAME¶
rsbackup.cron - cron script for rsbackupSYNOPSIS¶
rsbackup.cron [OPTIONS] FREQUENCYDESCRIPTION¶
rsbackup.cron is invoked from cron to run automated backups, pruning and reporting.FREQUENCY must be one of hourly, daily, weekly or monthly, corresponding to the frequency it is invoked at.
OPTIONS¶
- --dry-run, -n
- Passes the --dry-run option to rsbackup.
- --verbose, -v
- Displays the rsbackup command before executing it.
- --help, -h
- Displays a usage message and terminates.
- --version, -V
- Display version string.
CONFIGURATION¶
Configuration is read from /etc/rsbackup/defaults. This is a shell script fragment and it should define the following variables:- hourly
- daily
- weekly
- monthly
- Define the list of hosts to back up at a given frequency. Use the special string _all to back up all hosts.
- report
- Defines the frequency to send an email report.
- Defines the destination address for the email report.
- prune
- Defines the frequency of pruning old backups.
- prune_incomplete
- Defines the frequency of pruning incomplete backups.
Example¶
# # List hosts to backup hourly, daily, weekly and monthly # - set the empty string to back up no hosts (at that frequency) # - use the special string "_all" to back up everything # hourly="" daily=_all weekly="" monthly="" # # Set report=hourly|daily|weekly|monthly to control frequency of # email reports. (Hourly is probably a bit much!) Only effective # if email is not "". # report=daily # # Set email=ADDRESS to have the report emailed to that address. # email=root # # Set prune=hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|never to control frequency of # automated pruning of old backups # prune=daily # # Set prune_incomplete=hourly|daily|weekly|monthly|never to control # frequency of automated pruning of incomplete backups # prune_incomplete=weekly # # Prefix to the rsbackup command # Use 'nice' and/or 'ionice' here. Remember to quote correctly. # nicely=