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From: | Dominic Raferd |
Subject: | Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Safe to remove old increments while a backup runs? |
Date: | Wed, 26 Mar 2014 11:01:45 +0000 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 |
On 26/03/2014 09:41, Thomas Harold
wrote:
On 3/26/2014 4:59 AM, Sam's Lists wrote:I was removing some old increments on my backup server using: rdiff-backup --remove-older-than 3M --force root While this was running a cronjob on a remote computer started backing up to my backup server (the same directory). This is perfectly safe right?Well, hopefully the remote computer would abort saying that the destination rdiff-backup directory is in use... it's generally not safe to have two rdiff-backup commands hitting the folder at the same time. And I'm pretty sure that rdiff-backup checks for that. In our backup scripts, we always do everything from the client end in the backup script. So the origin is in control of everything. The sequence of commands that the origin PC runs are: - Run the rdiff-backup - Run a verify on the last N increments - Age out older increments We also take a bit of care when rsync'ing the backups to the offsite location. We check whether there has been any activity in the rdiff-backup directory in the last N minutes (usually 10) before we snapshot the filesystem and send the rdiff-backup offsite. Similar to your last tip, my offsite backup script aborts before taking the snapshot unless it gets null output from command: ps h -C rdiff-backup|grep -E -v " (--restore|-r |--list|-l |--compare)" The idea is to check that there are no ongoing rdiff-backup activities except for certain 'safe' ones such as restore, list, compare. Dominic --
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