I have incremental backups working to a remote server via rsync ( a QNAP in this case). I have daily x 7, weekly x 3 monthly x 3. This has been working fine for a while (years). Recently the WHM server storage hit 95+% and this stopped backups working until I resized the disk and created more space.
To 'catch up' on backups I immediately ran a manual back up.
Once complete through on the remote storage I could not see the daily folder made of remote incremental files. I waited until the next day, and not seeing the current date I manually ran the backup again .. same thing.
Leaving it a few days over the weekend I thought it might 'shake itself out', and then watching a few more it does seem to have 'daily' uploaded folders just a few days behind the current date. When I look in this last modified folder most data is dated 2 days ago with a few items showing todays date as modify - but certainly the named date of the last daily sync folder is two days behind.
On my WHM server in /home/backups/ I see the following folders ( daily backups and monthly - today is the 11th)
2022-10-11
2022-10-10
2022-10-09
2022-10-02
2022-09-17
2022-09-02
monthly
monthly/2022-07-15
monthly/2022-08-15
monthly/2022-09-15
weekly
weekly/2022-09-25
weekly/2022-10-02
weekly/2022-10-09
Firstly - I thought this data was removed after a completed backup. So I'm surprised to see multiple days here... some jumping back a bit.
On the remote server ( just recent folders )
2022-10-09 ( last modified of this folder is the 11th)
2022-10-08 ( last modified of this folder is the 10th)
2022-10-07 ( last modified of this folder is the 09th)
.. and so on
I'm wondering how to fix this... it there is simply a way to run the rsync a few times so it catches up?
How to be sure the local backups are cleaned up properly.
OR
... I'm happy to clear it all out and start a fresh sync - but I'm not sure on the best way to do this either.
To 'catch up' on backups I immediately ran a manual back up.
Once complete through on the remote storage I could not see the daily folder made of remote incremental files. I waited until the next day, and not seeing the current date I manually ran the backup again .. same thing.
Leaving it a few days over the weekend I thought it might 'shake itself out', and then watching a few more it does seem to have 'daily' uploaded folders just a few days behind the current date. When I look in this last modified folder most data is dated 2 days ago with a few items showing todays date as modify - but certainly the named date of the last daily sync folder is two days behind.
On my WHM server in /home/backups/ I see the following folders ( daily backups and monthly - today is the 11th)
2022-10-11
2022-10-10
2022-10-09
2022-10-02
2022-09-17
2022-09-02
monthly
monthly/2022-07-15
monthly/2022-08-15
monthly/2022-09-15
weekly
weekly/2022-09-25
weekly/2022-10-02
weekly/2022-10-09
Firstly - I thought this data was removed after a completed backup. So I'm surprised to see multiple days here... some jumping back a bit.
On the remote server ( just recent folders )
2022-10-09 ( last modified of this folder is the 11th)
2022-10-08 ( last modified of this folder is the 10th)
2022-10-07 ( last modified of this folder is the 09th)
.. and so on
I'm wondering how to fix this... it there is simply a way to run the rsync a few times so it catches up?
How to be sure the local backups are cleaned up properly.
OR
... I'm happy to clear it all out and start a fresh sync - but I'm not sure on the best way to do this either.
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