permalink: "/{{ year }}/{{ month }}/{{ day }}/irregular-backups-with-rsnapshotand-rsnapshot-ii" title: irregular backups with rsnapshot (and rsnapshot_ii) published_date: "2013-01-22 19:08:00 +0100" layout: post.liquid data: route: blog --- As stated in the last post I bought a big 2TB HDD for backups. My only computer right now is a Laptop so regular backups are not possible (due to not having the hdd with me all the time) I needed another way for easy full and incremental backups without relying to much on specific intervals. I came across [rsnapshot][], which - well - does depend on regular intervals. But here comes [rsnapshot_ii][], a small wrapper script for rsnapshot. It "fixes" these two problems the author (and I) had: * Backups with irregular intervals. * Missed backups. I uploaded my config here ([gist][]): * [rsnapshot.conf][] * [exclude][] And as promised in the last post the script I use to mount the HDD: [mount-backup][] [rsnapshot]: http://www.rsnapshot.org/ [rsnapshot_ii]: https://non7top.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/scripts/rsnapshot/rsnapshot_ii [gist]: https://gist.github.com/4596749#file-rsnapshot-conf [exclude]: https://gist.github.com/4596749#file-exclude [mount-backup]: https://gist.github.com/4596749#file-mount-backup-sh [rsnapshot.conf]: https://gist.github.com/4596749#file-rsnapshot-conf