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Using rsnapshot for daily PostgreSQL backups

Fedora, Linux, News, Raspbian, Ubuntu, Xubuntu / February 26, 2014 / 2 minutes of reading

Having done backups for MySQL using rsnapshot before I recently had to do the same thing for PostgreSQL. Turns out PostgreSQL has similar tools to do this and it’s actually quite easy to set it up. First, assuming rsnapshot will run under the root user you’ll need to create a .pgpass file at /root/.pgpass that […]

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Using rsnapshot for daily MySQL backups

Now that I’m using a CloudServer I figured I had to do something about backups as well. I’ve been using rsnapshot at work for a few years now and it’s an ideal backup solution. Because rsnapshot (which uses rsync as its base) makes use of hard links backups are very efficient. Basically it means that