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NAME

       rsnapshot - remote filesystem snapshot utility

SYNOPSIS

       rsnapshot [-vtxqVD] [-c cfgfile] [command] [args]

DESCRIPTION

rsnapshot is a filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incremental snapshots of local and remote
filesystems for any number of machines.

Local filesystem snapshots are handled with rsync(1). Secure remote connections are handled with rsync
over ssh(1), while anonymous rsync connections simply use an rsync server. Both remote and local
transfers depend on rsync.

rsnapshot saves much more disk space than you might imagine. The amount of space required is roughly the
size of one full backup, plus a copy of each additional file that is changed. rsnapshot makes extensive
use of hard links, so if the file doesn't change, the next snapshot is simply a hard link to the exact
same file.

rsnapshot will typically be invoked as root by a cron job, or series of cron jobs. It is possible,
however, to run as any arbitrary user with an alternate configuration file.

All important options are specified in a configuration file, which is located by default at
/etc/rsnapshot.conf. An alternate file can be specified on the command line. There are also additional
options which can be passed on the command line.

The command line options are as follows:

-v verbose, show shell commands being executed

-t test, show shell commands that would be executed

-c path to alternate config file

-x one filesystem, don't cross partitions within each backup point

-q quiet, suppress non-fatal warnings

-V same as -v, but with more detail

-D a firehose of diagnostic information

CONFIGURATION

/etc/rsnapshot.conf is the default configuration file. All parameters in this file must be separated by
tabs. /usr/share/doc/rsnapshot/examples/rsnapshot.conf.default.gz can be used as a reference.

It is recommended that you copy /usr/share/doc/rsnapshot/examples/rsnapshot.conf.default.gz to
/etc/rsnapshot.conf, and then modify /etc/rsnapshot.conf to suit your needs.

Long lines may be split over several lines. "Continuation" lines must begin with a space or a tab
character. Continuation lines will have all leading and trailing whitespace stripped off, and then be
appended with an intervening tab character to the previous line when the configuation file is parsed.

Here is a list of allowed parameters:

config_version Config file version (required). Default is 1.2

snapshot_root Local filesystem path to save all snapshots

include_conf Include another file in the configuration at this point.

This is recursive, but you may need to be careful about paths when specifying which file to
include. We check to see if the file you have specified is readable, and will yell an error if
it isn't. We recommend using a full path. As a special case, include_conf's value may be
enclosed in `backticks` in which case it will be executed and whatever it spits to STDOUT will be
included in the configuration. Note that shell meta-characters may be interpreted.

no_create_root If set to 1, rsnapshot won't create snapshot_root directory

cmd_rsync Full path to rsync (required)

cmd_ssh Full path to ssh (optional)

cmd_cp Full path to cp (optional, but must be GNU version)

If you are using Linux, you should uncomment cmd_cp. If you are using a platform which does not
have GNU cp, you should leave cmd_cp commented out.

With GNU cp, rsnapshot can take care of both normal files and special files (such as FIFOs,
sockets, and block/character devices) in one pass.

If cmd_cp is disabled, rsnapshot will use its own built-in function, native_cp_al() to backup up
regular files and directories. This will then be followed up by a separate call to rsync, to move
the special files over (assuming there are any).

cmd_rm Full path to rm (optional)

cmd_logger Full path to logger (optional, for syslog support)

cmd_du Full path to du (optional, for disk usage reports)

cmd_rsnapshot_diff Full path to rsnapshot-diff (optional)

cmd_preexec

Full path (plus any arguments) to preexec script (optional). This script will run immediately
before each backup operation (but not any rotations). If the execution fails, rsnapshot will stop
immediately.

cmd_postexec

Full path (plus any arguments) to postexec script (optional). This script will run immediately
after each backup operation (but not any rotations). If the execution fails, rsnapshot will stop
immediately.

linux_lvm_cmd_lvcreate

linux_lvm_cmd_lvremove

linux_lvm_cmd_mount

linux_lvm_cmd_umount

Paths to lvcreate, lvremove, mount and umount commands, for use with Linux LVMs. You may include
options to the commands also. The lvcreate, lvremove, mount and umount commands are required for
managing snapshots of LVM volumes and are otherwise optional.

retain [name] [number]

"name" refers to the name of this backup level (e.g., alpha, beta, so also called the
'interval'). "number" is the number of snapshots for this type of interval that will be retained.
The value of "name" will be the command passed to rsnapshot to perform this type of backup.

A deprecated alias for 'retain' is 'interval'.

Example: retain alpha 6

[root@localhost]# rsnapshot alpha

For this example, every time this is run, the following will happen:

<snapshot_root>/alpha.5/ will be deleted, if it exists.

<snapshot_root>/alpha.{1,2,3,4} will all be rotated +1, if they exist.

<snapshot_root>/alpha.0/ will be copied to <snapshot_root>/alpha.1/ using hard links.

Each backup point (explained below) will then be rsynced to the corresponding directories in
<snapshot_root>/alpha.0/

Backup levels must be specified in the config file in order, from most frequent to least
frequent. The first entry is the one which will be synced with the backup points. The subsequent
backup levels (e.g., beta, gamma, etc) simply rotate, with each higher backup level pulling from
the one below it for its .0 directory.

Example:

retain alpha 6

retain beta 7

retain gamma 4

beta.0/ will be moved from alpha.5/, and gamma.0/ will be moved from beta.6/

alpha.0/ will be rsynced directly from the filesystem.

link_dest 1

If your version of rsync supports --link-dest (2.5.7 or newer), you can enable this to let rsync
handle some things that GNU cp or the built-in subroutines would otherwise do. Enabling this
makes rsnapshot take a slightly more complicated code branch, but it's the best way to support
special files on non-Linux systems.

sync_first 1

sync_first changes the behaviour of rsnapshot. When this is enabled, all calls to rsnapshot with
various backup levels simply rotate files. All backups are handled by calling rsnapshot with the
"sync" argument. The synced files are stored in a ".sync" directory under the snapshot_root.

This allows better recovery in the event that rsnapshot is interrupted in the middle of a sync
operation, since the sync step and rotation steps are separated. This also means that you can
easily run "rsnapshot sync" on the command line without fear of forcing all the other directories
to rotate up. This benefit comes at the cost of one more snapshot worth of disk space. The
default is 0 (off).

verbose 2

The amount of information to print out when the program is run. Allowed values are 1 through 5.
The default is 2.

1 Quiet Show fatal errors only
2 Default Show warnings and errors
3 Verbose Show equivalent shell commands being executed
4 Extra Verbose Same as verbose, but with more detail
5 Debug All kinds of information

loglevel 3

This number means the same thing as verbose above, but it determines how much data is written to
the logfile, if one is being written.

logfile /var/log/rsnapshot

Full filesystem path to the rsnapshot log file. If this is defined, a log file will be written,
with the amount of data being controlled by loglevel. If this is commented out, no log file will
be written.

include [file-name-pattern]

This gets passed directly to rsync using the --include directive. This parameter can be specified
as many times as needed, with one pattern defined per line. See the rsync(1) man page for the
syntax.

exclude [file-name-pattern]

This gets passed directly to rsync using the --exclude directive. This parameter can be specified
as many times as needed, with one pattern defined per line. See the rsync(1) man page for the
syntax.

include_file /path/to/include/file

This gets passed directly to rsync using the --include-from directive. See the rsync(1) man page
for the syntax.

exclude_file /path/to/exclude/file

This gets passed directly to rsync using the --exclude-from directive. See the rsync(1) man page
for the syntax.

rsync_short_args -a

List of short arguments to pass to rsync. If not specified, "-a" is the default. Please note that
these must be all next to each other. For example, "-az" is valid, while "-a -z" is not.

"-a" is rsync's "archive mode" which tells it to copy as much of the filesystem metadata as it
can for each file. This specifically does *not* include information about hard links, as that
would greatly increase rsync's memory usage and slow it down. If you need to preserve hard links
in your backups, then add "H" to this.

rsync_long_args --delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded

List of long arguments to pass to rsync. The default values are
--delete --numeric-ids --relative --delete-excluded This means that the directory structure
in each backup point destination will match that in the backup point source.

Quotes are permitted in rsync_long_args, eg --rsync-path="sudo /usr/bin/rsync". You may use
either single (') or double (") quotes, but nested quotes (including mixed nested quotes) are not
permitted. Similar quoting is also allowed in per-backup-point rsync_long_args.

ssh_args -p 22

Arguments to be passed to ssh. If not specified, the default is none.

du_args -csh

Arguments to be passed to du. If not specified, the default is -csh. GNU du supports -csh, BSD
du supports -csk, Solaris du doesn't support -c at all. The GNU version is recommended, since it
offers the most features.

lockfile /var/run/rsnapshot.pid

stop_on_stale_lockfile 0

Lockfile to use when rsnapshot is run. This prevents a second invocation from clobbering the
first one. If not specified, no lock file is used. Make sure to use a directory that is not
world writeable for security reasons. Use of a lock file is strongly recommended.

If a lockfile exists when rsnapshot starts, it will try to read the file and stop with an error
if it can't. If it *can* read the file, it sees if a process exists with the PID noted in the
file. If it does, rsnapshot stops with an error message. If there is no process with that PID,
then we assume that the lockfile is stale and ignore it *unless* stop_on_stale_lockfile is set to
1 in which case we stop.

stop_on_stale_lockfile defaults to 0.

one_fs 1

Prevents rsync from crossing filesystem partitions. Setting this to a value of 1 enables this
feature. 0 turns it off. This parameter is optional. The default is 0 (off).

use_lazy_deletes 1

Changes default behavior of rsnapshot and does not initially remove the oldest snapshot. Instead
it moves that directory to _delete.[processid] and continues as normal. Once the backup has been
completed, the lockfile will be removed before rsnapshot starts deleting the directory.

Enabling this means that snapshots get taken sooner (since the delete doesn't come first), and
any other rsnapshot processes are allowed to start while the final delete is happening. This
benefit comes at the cost of using more disk space. The default is 0 (off).

The details of how this works have changed in rsnapshot version 1.3.1. Originally you could only
ever have one .delete directory per backup level. Now you can have many, so if your next (eg)
alpha backup kicks off while the previous one is still doing a lazy delete you may temporarily
have extra _delete directories hanging around.

linux_lvm_snapshotsize 2G

LVM snapshot(s) size (lvcreate --size option).

linux_lvm_snapshotname rsnapshot

Name to be used when creating the LVM logical volume snapshot(s) (lvcreate --name option).

linux_lvm_vgpath /dev

Path to the LVM Volume Groups.

linux_lvm_mountpath /mnt/lvm-snapshot

Mount point to use to temporarily mount the snapshot(s).

backup /etc/ localhost/

backup root@example.com:/etc/ example.com/

backup rsync://example.com/path2/ example.com/

backup /var/ localhost/ one_fs=1

backup lvm://vg0/home/path2/ lvm-vg0/

backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_pgsql.sh pgsql_backup/

Examples:

backup /etc/ localhost/

Backs up /etc/ to <snapshot_root>/<retain>.0/localhost/etc/ using rsync on the local
filesystem

backup /usr/local/ localhost/

Backs up /usr/local/ to <snapshot_root>/<retain>.0/localhost/usr/local/ using rsync on the
local filesystem

backup root@example.com:/etc/ example.com/

Backs up root@example.com:/etc/ to <snapshot_root>/<retain>.0/example.com/etc/ using rsync
over ssh

backup example.com:/etc/ example.com/

Same thing but let ssh choose the remote username (as specified in ~/.ssh/config, otherwise
the same as the local username)

backup root@example.com:/usr/local/ example.com/

Backs up root@example.com:/usr/local/ to <snapshot_root>/<retain>.0/example.com/usr/local/
using rsync over ssh

backup rsync://example.com/pub/ example.com/pub/

Backs up rsync://example.com/pub/ to <snapshot_root>/<retain>.0/example.com/pub/ using an
anonymous rsync server. Please note that unlike backing up local paths and using rsync over
ssh, rsync servers have "modules", which are top level directories that are exported.
Therefore, the module should also be specified in the destination path, as shown in the
example above (the pub/ directory at the end).

backup /var/ localhost/ one_fs=1

This is the same as the other examples, but notice the fourth column. This is how you
specify per-backup-point options to over-ride global settings. This extra parameter can take
several options, separated by commas.

It is most useful when specifying per-backup rsync excludes thus:

backup root@somehost:/ somehost +rsync_long_args=--exclude=/var/spool/

Note the + sign. That tells rsnapshot to add to the list of arguments to pass to rsync
instead of replacing the list.

backup lvm://vg0/home/path2/ lvm-vg0/

Backs up the LVM logical volume called home, of volume group vg0, to
<snapshot_root>/<interval>.0/lvm-vg0/. Will create, mount, backup, unmount and remove an LVM
snapshot for each lvm:// entry.

backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_database.sh db_backup/

In this example, we specify a script or program to run. This script should simply create
files and/or directories in its current working directory. rsnapshot will then take that
output and move it into the directory specified in the third column.

Please note that whatever is in the destination directory will be completely deleted and
recreated. For this reason, rsnapshot prevents you from specifying a destination directory
for a backup_script that will clobber other backups.

So in this example, say the backup_database.sh script simply runs a command like:

#!/bin/sh

mysqldump -uusername mydatabase > mydatabase.sql

chmod u=r,go= mydatabase.sql # r-------- (0400)

rsnapshot will take the generated "mydatabase.sql" file and move it into the
<snapshot_root>/<retain>.0/db_backup/ directory. On subsequent runs, rsnapshot checks the
differences between the files created against the previous files. If the backup script
generates the same output on the next run, the files will be hard linked against the previous
ones, and no additional disk space will be taken up.

backup_exec ssh root@1.2.3.4 "du -sh /.offsite_backup" optional/
backup_exec rsync -az /.snapshots/daily.0 root@1.2.3.4:/.offsite_backup/ required/
backup_exec /bin/true/

backup_exec simply runs the command listed. The second argument is not required and defaults
to a value of 'optional'. It specifies the importance that the command return 0. Valid values
are 'optional' and 'required'. If the command is specified as optional, a non-zero exit
status from the command will result in a warning message being output. If the command is
specified as 'required', a non-zero exit status from the command will result in an error
message being output and rsnapshot itself will exit with a non-zero exit status.

Remember that tabs must separate all elements, and that there must be a trailing slash on the end of
every directory.

A hash mark (#) on the beginning of a line is treated as a comment.

Putting it all together (an example file):

# THIS IS A COMMENT, REMEMBER TABS MUST SEPARATE ALL ELEMENTS

config_version 1.2

snapshot_root /.snapshots/

cmd_rsync /usr/bin/rsync
cmd_ssh /usr/bin/ssh
#cmd_cp /bin/cp
cmd_rm /bin/rm
cmd_logger /usr/bin/logger
cmd_du /usr/bin/du

linux_lvm_cmd_lvcreate /sbin/lvcreate
linux_lvm_cmd_lvremove /sbin/lvremove
linux_lvm_cmd_mount /bin/mount
linux_lvm_cmd_umount /bin/umount

linux_lvm_snapshotsize 2G
linux_lvm_snapshotname rsnapshot
linux_lvm_vgpath /dev
linux_lvm_mountpath /mnt/lvm-snapshot

retain alpha 6
retain beta 7
retain gamma 7
retain delta 3

backup /etc/ localhost/
backup /home/ localhost/
backup_script /usr/local/bin/backup_mysql.sh mysql_backup/

backup root@foo.com:/etc/ foo.com/
backup root@foo.com:/home/ foo.com/
backup root@mail.foo.com:/home/ mail.foo.com/
backup rsync://example.com/pub/ example.com/pub/
backup lvm://vg0/xen-home/ lvm-vg0/xen-home/
backup_exec echo "backup finished!"

USAGE

rsnapshot can be used by any user, but for system-wide backups you will probably want to run it as root.

Since backups usually get neglected if human intervention is required, the preferred way is to run it
from cron.

When you are first setting up your backups, you will probably also want to run it from the command line
once or twice to get a feel for what it's doing.

Here is an example crontab entry, assuming that backup levels alpha, beta, gamma and delta have been
defined in /etc/rsnapshot.conf

0 */4 * * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha

50 23 * * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot beta

40 23 * * 6 /usr/bin/rsnapshot gamma

30 23 1 * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot delta

This example will do the following:

6 alpha backups a day (once every 4 hours, at 0,4,8,12,16,20)

1 beta backup every day, at 11:50PM

1 gamma backup every week, at 11:40PM, on Saturdays (6th day of week)

1 delta backup every month, at 11:30PM on the 1st day of the month

It is usually a good idea to schedule the larger backup levels to run a bit before the lower ones. For
example, in the crontab above, notice that "beta" runs 10 minutes before "alpha". The main reason for
this is that the beta rotate will pull out the oldest alpha and make that the youngest beta (which means
that the next alpha rotate will not need to delete the oldest alpha), which is more efficient. A
secondary reason is that it is harder to predict how long the lowest backup level will take, since it
needs to actually do an rsync of the source as well as the rotate that all backups do.

If rsnapshot takes longer than 10 minutes to do the "beta" rotate (which usually includes deleting the
oldest beta snapshot), then you should increase the time between the backup levels. Otherwise (assuming
you have set the lockfile parameter, as is recommended) your alpha snapshot will fail sometimes because
the beta still has the lock.

Remember that these are just the times that the program runs. To set the number of backups stored, set
the retain numbers in /etc/rsnapshot.conf

To check the disk space used by rsnapshot, you can call it with the "du" argument.

For example:

rsnapshot du

This will show you exactly how much disk space is taken up in the snapshot root. This feature requires
the UNIX du command to be installed on your system, for it to support the "-csh" command line arguments,
and to be in your path. You can also override your path settings and the flags passed to du using the
cmd_du and du_args parameters.

It is also possible to pass a relative file path as a second argument, to get a report on a particular
file or subdirectory.

rsnapshot du localhost/home/

The GNU version of "du" is preferred. The BSD version works well also, but does not support the -h flag
(use -k instead, to see the totals in kilobytes). Other versions of "du", such as Solaris, may not work
at all.

To check the differences between two directories, call rsnapshot with the "diff" argument, followed by
two backup levels or directory paths.

For example:

rsnapshot diff beta.0 beta.1

rsnapshot diff beta.0/localhost/etc beta.1/localhost/etc

rsnapshot diff /.snapshots/beta.0 /.snapshots/beta.1

This will call the rsnapshot-diff program, which will scan both directories looking for differences
(based on hard links).

rsnapshot sync

When sync_first is enabled, rsnapshot must first be called with the sync argument, followed by the
other usual cron entries. The sync should happen as the lowest, most frequent backup level, and right
before. For example:

0 */4 * * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot sync && /usr/bin/rsnapshot alpha

50 23 * * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot beta

40 23 1,8,15,22 * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot gamma

30 23 1 * * /usr/bin/rsnapshot delta

The sync operation simply runs rsync and all backup scripts. In this scenario, all calls simply
rotate directories, even the lowest backup level.

rsnapshot sync [dest]

When sync_first is enabled, all sync behaviour happens during an additional sync step (see above).
When using the sync argument, it is also possible to specify a backup point destination as an
optional parameter. If this is done, only backup points sharing that destination path will be synced.

For example, let's say that example.com is a destination path shared by one or more of your backup
points.

rsnapshot sync example.com

This command will only sync the files that normally get backed up into example.com. It will NOT get
any other backup points with slightly different values (like example.com/etc/, for example). In order
to sync example.com/etc, you would need to run rsnapshot again, using example.com/etc as the optional
parameter.

rsnapshot configtest

Do a quick sanity check to make sure everything is ready to go.

EXIT VALUES

           0  All operations completed successfully

           1  A fatal error occurred

           2  Some warnings occurred, but the backup still finished

FILES

       /etc/rsnapshot.conf

DIAGNOSTICS

       Use the -t flag to see what commands would have been executed. This will show you the commands rsnapshot
       would try to run. There are a few minor differences (for example, not showing an attempt to remove the
       lockfile because it wasn't really created in the test), but should give you a very good idea what will
       happen.

       Using the -v, -V, and -D flags will print increasingly more information to STDOUT.

       Make sure you don't have spaces in the config file that you think are actually tabs.

       Much other weird behavior can probably be attributed to plain old file system permissions and ssh
       authentication issues.

BUGS

       Please report bugs (and other comments) to the rsnapshot-discuss mailing list:

       http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/rsnapshot-discuss

NOTES

Make sure your /etc/rsnapshot.conf file has all elements separated by tabs. See
/usr/share/doc/rsnapshot/examples/rsnapshot.conf.default.gz for a working example file.

Make sure you put a trailing slash on the end of all directory references. If you don't, you may have
extra directories created in your snapshots. For more information on how the trailing slash is handled,
see the rsync(1) manpage.

Make sure to make the snapshot directory chmod 700 and owned by root (assuming backups are made by the
root user). If the snapshot directory is readable by other users, they will be able to modify the
snapshots containing their files, thus destroying the integrity of the snapshots.

If you would like regular users to be able to restore their own backups, there are a number of ways this
can be accomplished. One such scenario would be:

Set snapshot_root to /.private/.snapshots in /etc/rsnapshot.conf

Set the file permissions on these directories as follows:

drwx------ /.private

drwxr-xr-x /.private/.snapshots

Export the /.private/.snapshots directory over read-only NFS, a read-only Samba share, etc.

See the rsnapshot HOWTO for more information on making backups accessible to non-privileged users.

For ssh to work unattended through cron, you will probably want to use public key logins. Create an ssh
key with no passphrase for root, and install the public key on each machine you want to backup. If you
are backing up system files from remote machines, this probably means unattended root logins. Another
possibility is to create a second user on the machine just for backups. Give the user a different name
such as "rsnapshot", but keep the UID and GID set to 0, to give root privileges. However, make logins
more restrictive, either through ssh configuration, or using an alternate shell.

BE CAREFUL! If the private key is obtained by an attacker, they will have free run of all the systems
involved. If you are unclear on how to do this, see ssh(1), sshd(1), and ssh-keygen(1).

Backup scripts are run as the same user that rsnapshot is running as. Typically this is root. Make sure
that all of your backup scripts are only writable by root, and that they don't call any other programs
that aren't owned by root. If you fail to do this, anyone who can write to the backup script or any
program it calls can fully take over the machine. Of course, this is not a situation unique to rsnapshot.

By default, rsync transfers are done using the --numeric-ids option. This means that user names and
group names are ignored during transfers, but the UID/GID information is kept intact. The assumption is
that the backups will be restored in the same environment they came from. Without this option, restoring
backups for multiple heterogeneous servers would be unmanageable. If you are archiving snapshots with GNU
tar, you may want to use the --numeric-owner parameter. Also, keep a copy of the archived system's
/etc/passwd and /etc/group files handy for the UID/GID to name mapping.

If you remove backup points in the config file, the previously archived files under those points will
permanently stay in the snapshots directory unless you remove the files yourself. If you want to conserve
disk space, you will need to go into the <snapshot_root> directory and manually remove the files from the
smallest backup level's ".0" directory.

For example, if you were previously backing up /home/ with a destination of localhost/, and alpha is your
smallest backup level, you would need to do the following to reclaim that disk space:

rm -rf <snapshot_root>/alpha.0/localhost/home/

Please note that the other snapshots previously made of /home/ will still be using that disk space, but
since the files are flushed out of alpha.0/, they will no longer be copied to the subsequent directories,
and will thus be removed in due time as the rotations happen.

AUTHORS

       Mike Rubel - http://www.mikerubel.org/computers/rsync_snapshots/

       - Created the original shell scripts on which this project is based

       Nathan Rosenquist (nathan@rsnapshot.org)

       - Primary author and original maintainer of rsnapshot.

       David Cantrell (david@cantrell.org.uk)

       - Previous maintainer of rsnapshot
       - Wrote the rsnapshot-diff utility
       - Improved how use_lazy_deletes work so slow deletes don't screw up the next backup at that backup level.

       David Keegel <djk@cybersource.com.au>

       - Previous rsnapshot maintainer
       - Fixed race condition in lock file creation, improved error reporting
       - Allowed remote ssh directory paths starting with "~/" as well as "/"
       - Fixed a number of other bugs and buglets

       Benedikt Heine <benedikt@heine.rocks>

       - Current rsnapshot maintainer

       Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom (chrome@real-time.com)

       - Created the RPM .spec file which allowed the RPM package to be built, among other things.

       Ted Zlatanov (tzz@lifelogs.com)

       - Added the one_fs feature, autoconf support, good advice, and much more.

       Ralf van Dooren (r.vdooren@snow.nl)

       - Added and maintains the rsnapshot entry in the FreeBSD ports tree.

       SlapAyoda

       - Provided access to his computer museum for software testing.

       Carl Boe (boe@demog.berkeley.edu)

       - Found several subtle bugs and provided fixes for them.

       Shane Leibling (shane@cryptio.net)

       - Fixed a compatibility bug in utils/backup_smb_share.sh

       Christoph Wegscheider (christoph.wegscheider@wegi.net)

       - Added (and previously maintained) the Debian rsnapshot package.

       Bharat Mediratta (bharat@menalto.com)

       - Improved the exclusion rules to avoid backing up the snapshot root (among other things).

       Peter Palfrader (weasel@debian.org)

       - Enhanced error reporting to include command line options.

       Nicolas Kaiser (nikai@nikai.net)

       - Fixed typos in program and man page

       Chris Petersen - (http://www.forevermore.net/)

           Added cwrsync permanent-share support

       Robert Jackson (RobertJ@promedicalinc.com)

           Added use_lazy_deletes feature

       Justin Grote (justin@grote.name)

           Improved rsync error reporting code

       Anthony Ettinger (apwebdesign@yahoo.com)

           Wrote the utils/mysqlbackup.pl script

       Sherman Boyd

           Wrote utils/random_file_verify.sh script

       William Bear (bear@umn.edu)

           Wrote the utils/rsnapreport.pl script (pretty summary of rsync stats)

       Eric Anderson (anderson@centtech.com)

           Improvements to utils/rsnapreport.pl.

       Alan Batie (alan@batie.org)

           Bug fixes for include_conf

       Dieter Bloms (dieter@bloms.de)

           Multi-line configuration options

       Henning Moll (newsScott@gmx.de)

           stop_on_stale_lockfile

       Ben Low (ben@bdlow.net)

           Linux LVM snapshot support

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2003-2005 Nathan Rosenquist

       Portions Copyright (C) 2002-2007 Mike Rubel, Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom, Ted Zlatanov, Carl Boe, Shane
       Liebling, Bharat Mediratta, Peter Palfrader, Nicolas Kaiser, David Cantrell, Chris Petersen, Robert
       Jackson, Justin Grote, David Keegel, Alan Batie, Dieter Bloms, Henning Moll, Ben Low, Anthony Ettinger

       This man page is distributed under the same license as rsnapshot: the GPL (see below).

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU
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