Rsync-backup2disk

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Maintainer	Unnilennium
Url	https://wiki.contribs.org
Licence	GPL
Category	backup
Tags	backup, usb, disk, rsync, cron

Maintainer

Original contributor : Darell May

Jean-Philippe Pialasse

Version

Devel 10:

0.0.2-4

Contrib 10:

0.0.2-3

smeserver-rsync-backup2disk

The latest version of smeserver-rsync-backup2disk is available in the SME repository, click on the version number(s) for more information.

Description

SME Server implementation of rsync to perform nightly backup to a mounted drive. With a server-manage panel

/etc/e-smith/events/actions/rsync-backup will be executed at the time configured

in case of disaster, you could use the action /etc/e-smith/events/actions/rsync-restore and the backup disk will be used as a traditional tape to restore from to your server your whole backup.

You can also manually mount the disk and use cli to cherry pick your files.

The Reminder is simply a mail sent to admin via the cron report

Installation

For SME 10

yum --enablerepo=smecontribs install smeserver-rsync-backup2disk

Configuration

server-manager panel for rsync backup2disk

you can list the available configuration with the following command :

config show rsync

Some of the properties are not shown, but are defaulted in a template or a script. Here a more comprehensive list with default and expected values :

property	default	values
Exclude		string
Include	SME default list	string
Mount	/media/Usbdisk	string
backupTime	23:30	time 24h
reminderTime	14:00	time 24h	if empty it will not send alert.
status	disabled	disabled, enabled

fstab

A storage Device needs to be listed in the fstab file to be available for mounting and use as a backup target, as long as device is listed in fstab it will be used by rsync, FS ext3 ext4 or xfs, at a minimum, are supported.

Mount point in fstab must be same as mount point entered in configuration.

/etc/fstab

#------------------------------------------------------------
# BE CAREFUL WHEN MODIFYING THIS FILE! It is updated automatically
# by the SME server software. A few entries are updated during
# the template processing of the file and white space is removed,
# but otherwise changes to the file are preserved.
# For more information, see http://www.e-smith.org/custom/ and
# the template fragments in /etc/e-smith/templates/etc/fstab/.
# 
# copyright (C) 2002 Mitel Networks Corporation
#------------------------------------------------------------
#
# /etc/fstab
# Created by anaconda on Sun Mar 28 18:56:50 2021
#
# Accessible filesystems, by reference, are maintained under '/dev/disk'
# See man pages fstab(5), findfs(8), mount(8) and/or blkid(8) for more info
#
/dev/mapper/main-root   /                       xfs     uquota,gquota        0 0
UUID=d52f319b-b06f-42bd-8408-6b3b1aba6731 /boot                   xfs     defaults        0 0
/dev/mapper/main-swap   swap                    swap    defaults        0 0
# the following device added for rsync-backup
UUID=e5b75a85-5f3d-4db5-9097-f0339f711ab1 /media/usbdisk ext3 defaults,_netdev 0 0

Following formats for fstab may be used, UUID or LABEL are preferred:

UUID=WHATEVERUUID /media/backupusb ext3 defaults,_netdev 0 0
LABEL=WHATEVERLABEL /media/backupusb ext3 defaults,_netdev 0 0
(not recommended )
/dev/sdb1 /media/backupusb ext3 defaults 0 0

UUID or LABEL may be found by using lsblk as follows:

[root@sme10rc ~]# lsblk -o NAME,UUID,FSTYPE,LABEL
NAME          UUID                                   FSTYPE      LABEL
sda
├─sda1        d52f319b-b06f-42bd-8408-6b3b1aba6731   xfs         BOOT
└─sda2        LUlD4Z-jSfM-rDXi-dnyb-YuJk-HErl-LlHLVg LVM2_member
  ├─main-root 27c5fbcd-2138-4517-b911-2f03998a3aba   xfs
  └─main-swap 7547033e-6245-4994-b9ee-161cabeaaf55   swap
sdb
└─sdb1        e5b75a85-5f3d-4db5-9097-f0339f711ab1   ext3

Uninstall

yum remove smeserver-rsync-backup2disk  rsync-backup2disk

Bugs

Please raise bugs under the SME-Contribs section in bugzilla and select the smeserver-rsync-backup2disk component or use this link

Below is an overview of the current issues for this contrib:

No open bugs found.

Changelog

Only released version in smecontrib are listed here.

smeserver-rsync-backup2disk Changelog: SME 10 (smecontribs)

2021/09/08 Terry Fage 0.0.2-3.sme
- apply locale 2021-09-08 patch

2021/08/23 Terry Fage 0.0.2-2.sme
- apply locale 2021-08-23 patch

2021/04/03 Jean-Philippe Pialasse 0.0.2-1.sme
- import to SME10
- change name from smeserver-rsync to smeserver-rsync-backup2disk
- create update event
- move perl module to new path

- cleanup spec

2006/11/03 Darrell May
- added support for no reminder e-mail

- [0.0.1-a6dmay]

2006/11/02 Darrell May
- numerous updates

- [0.0.1-a5dmay]