Suppose that after starting a rsnapshot backup on my laptop I notice that it will take too long time and that I have to shutdown the laptop in a few minutes.
Is there a way to quit rsnapshot without messing up the running backup and resume it later (for example after rebooting the laptop) without problems?
If you have the output of rsnapshot available, you can safely repeat the rsync command that it used. You do not (and should not) delete hourly.0 if you're going to do this.
For example, on one of my systems this is (almost) what gets run by rsnapshot, so this could be copied and pasted and rerun:
/usr/bin/rsync -avzS --delete --delete-excluded --numeric-ids --fake-super \ --exclude-from=/usr/local/etc/rsnapshot/EXCLUDE-qnap.inc \ --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh \ --link-dest=/backup/Rsync/NewZealand/QNAP/Data/hourly.1/share/ \ [email protected]:/share/ \ /backup/Rsync/NewZealand/QNAP/Data/hourly.0/share/ 