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Is it possible to rsnapshot localsource to remotetarget?

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Since rsnapshot is based on rsync I wanted to try to use rsnapshot on my client server to backup to a remote server. The Problem is I am unable to find proper informations to set this up. I now how to use rsync to save files/dirs from my client server to my remote server but struggle with the rsnapshot conf. My initial thought was I just switch source and target inside the rsnapshot.conf file: LocalSource -> LocalDestionation:
backup    /home/    localhost
to LocalSource -> RemoteDestination:
backup    /home/    user@remote.com:/volume1/Backups
It seems this is not working since rsnapshot -t daily results in:
echo 4069 > /var/run/rsnapshot.pid
mkdir -m 0755 -p \
    /var/cache/rsnapshot/daily.0/user@remote.com:/volume1/Backups/
/usr/bin/rsync -a --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded \
    /home/ \
    /var/cache/rsnapshot/daily.0/user@remote.com:/volume1/Backups/remote.com/
touch /var/cache/rsnapshot/daily.0/
and running rsnapshot not in testmode also just saves them to rsnapshots root directory. **Is it possible to achieve this?** I am aware of that the switched situation should work: RemoteSource -> LocalDestination:
backup    user@client.com:/home/    localhost
Asked by MaKaNu (131 rep)
Apr 7, 2022, 11:51 AM
Last activity: Jul 15, 2022, 02:06 AM