[rsnapshot-discuss] Newbie question: How can I preserve/keep specific snapshots, independent of "retain"

[Michael_OF]

Hi all,


I'm using rnsnapshot since a couple of weeks now, backing up my VPS to my Linux box at home, or exactly to an USB drive
attached. Switched from self-written scripts with incremental tars and a lot of ssh-ing. Main reason was the very nice
hard link concept of rsnapshot, makes restoring MUCH easier than incremental tar archives.

*** Thanks to all who spent their effort into this nice and very useful tool ***

I'm using retain like usual I guess, (daily/weekly/monthly), and there's a small thing I'm missing: E.g. for major
upgrades it would be cool to preserve a snapshot, ideally with naming it, independent of any backups cycles.

I can easily do this by e.g.

cp -al daily.0 <named_snapshot>

but I'm not 100% sure if the sheer excistence of these additional hard links to snapshot_root might intefere somehow,
e.g. for future automatic deletes of snapshots by rsnapshot itself.

I guess not, but I want to be sure, that's why I'm asking here :-)


Regards,
Michael

[David Cantrell]

Post by Michael_OF
I'm using retain like usual I guess, (daily/weekly/monthly), and there's a small thing I'm missing: E.g. for major
upgrades it would be cool to preserve a snapshot, ideally with naming it, independent of any backups cycles.
I can easily do this by e.g.
cp -al daily.0 <named_snapshot>
but I'm not 100% sure if the sheer excistence of these additional hard links to snapshot_root might intefere somehow,
e.g. for future automatic deletes of snapshots by rsnapshot itself.

That'll be absolutely fine.

[Michael_OF via rsnapshot-discuss]

Hi David,

thank you very much for clarifying this!

Kind regards,
Michael

Post by David Cantrell

Post by Michael_OF
I'm using retain like usual I guess, (daily/weekly/monthly), and there's a small thing I'm missing: E.g. for major
upgrades it would be cool to preserve a snapshot, ideally with naming it, independent of any backups cycles.
I can easily do this by e.g.
cp -al daily.0 <named_snapshot>
but I'm not 100% sure if the sheer excistence of these additional hard links to snapshot_root might intefere somehow,
e.g. for future automatic deletes of snapshots by rsnapshot itself.

That'll be absolutely fine.