On 17-09-2016 07:42, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Hi > > One of the issues we've encountered following a recent Jessie upgrade, > (around 5th September) is an rsync script seems to have changed behaviour. > > We've been using rsync for a daily automated incremental backup and > have three scripts to maintain an archive of daily snapshots for a > week; weekly snapshots for a month; and 6 monthly snapshots (files are > irretrievable 6months after they been deleted from the backed up server). > > We've two pairs of FileServer and BackupServer, rsyncd runs on > FileServer and the following daily script on BackupServer > > #!/bin/bash > > # This script is called daily from cron to perform overnight backups > # The full paths of the programs used in this script > rm=/bin/rm > mv=/bin/mv > cp=/bin/cp > rsync=/usr/bin/rsync > > # Good rsync options for FileServer_backups. > rsync_opts="-av --delete --delete-excluded" > > # The name of the file containing the rsync connection password > password="--password-file=/etc/.rs_pass" > > # A list of files and directories that do not need to be backed up > exclude_list="music funstuff cma/TransitStuff lost+found/" > excludes="" > for exclude in $exclude_list; do > excludes="$excludes --exclude=$exclude" > done > > # define NOW for adding date to rsync log filename eg. FileServer.date > NOW=$(date +"%F.%H:%M") > > # Move all other backups up a level. Copy previous backup to > /backup/daily. > # Backup FileServer according to the [rsync] sections of the > rsyncd.conf files > # on FileServer. Use the password given in /etc/.rs_pass. Dump any > output and > # error messages to /var/rsync/FileServer > mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.5 /home/backup/snapshot/day.6 > mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.4 /home/backup/snapshot/day.5 > mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.3 /home/backup/snapshot/day.4 > mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.2 /home/backup/snapshot/day.3 > mv /home/backup/snapshot/day.1 /home/backup/snapshot/day.2 > cp -al /home/backup/home /home/backup/snapshot/day.1 > $rsync $rsync_opts $password FileServer::rsync \ > /home/backup/home/ > /var/rsync/FileServer.$NOW.log > > The incremental backups have worked seamlessly for over 10 years but > recently, possibly related to the upgrade of Debian Jessie, the > exclude options have ceased to have effect. > > I've dug around the docs but haven't found anything relevant. Any > suggestions as to what may be wrong? >
You define $excludes, but you don't seem to use it anywhere. BTW, your rotating backups are basically what rsnapshot does, you might want to look at that. -- Eduardo M KALINOWSKI edua...@kalinowski.com.br
