Backup plugin (using rsnapshot) for 0.5

Hi,
i was missing a real backup solution in OMV, so i started working on it as a plugin for OMV 0.5

My plugin uses rsnapshot to create periodical incremental backups of any shared folder to any other shared folder.

It does NOT backup your system drive!
There is a plugin available through OMV-Extras called openmediavault-backup. This backs up your system drive. If you have problems with the restore, create a thread.
So this plugin here ONLY backs up your shared folders! Understood? Then go ahead.

Rsnapshot uses hardlinks for this, making each backup appearing complete while still saving disk space when files didn't change between backups.
You can easily browse backups through SMB/NFS share access, they will appear in directories like "daily.0", "daily.1" and so on, while "daily.0" is the most-recent one.

You can define how many hourly, daily, weekly, monthly backups you want to keep until the oldest is removed automatically.
This also sets the up intervals you need: e.g. if you don't want hourly backups, set hourly to 0

Rsnapshot has one limitation, though: it doesn't support remote backup targets. It would be possible to support remote sources, however.

I recommend to use this only in testing environments, as i didn't spent much time to test it.
Especially in the specified backup target dir, directories and files are created, so use an empty folder as target to be safe.

Source and Plugin .deb available on github

Update: Plugin is now available in the omv-extras repository (Thanks ryecoaaron)

I'd be happy to know if it works for you (or if it doesn't).

Screenshots:

Note that the next one shows MANUAL execution only. Backups are also executed automatically.

As you were not the only one misunderstanding the version it was made for, i edited the first post
And yes, this is intended to backup your data, not your system (for which i clone the whole drive, too).
I think the only way to force yourself to make periodic backups is when they happen automatically.

I also included 2 screenshots now.
Feel free to ask any other questions, i may have been unclear on more topics.

mbourd25: A NFS-mounted target directory would work.
If you're talking about a remote ssh or smb target: Nope, I'm sorry. rsnapshot itself doesn't support network targets. There are some workarounds, but all require configuration on the target. See http://www.rsnapshot.org/faq.html .

Rsnapshot supports to use network sources however. In this case, you will have a backup server and some clients (which are backed up), on which ssh and rsync must be running. Maybe i'll add an option for this in the future.

davidh2k: sure, is there a way how i can push updates to that repo?

Sounds like a legit method for updates to me

Zitat von "ryecoaaron"

You can send me a message when you change something and I can add it to the repo. I'm still new with running the repo and not ready for multi-user yet

I don't get why the "OMV.form.field.GroupComboBox" is a problem, since the GroupComboBox is used in Jobs.js.
Also, it works on my machine - fresh installed OMV 0.5, but i updated it to the latest version. Tried that?

I'm running linux aswell.

var/www/openmediavault/js/omv/module/admin/service/rsnapshot $ file Jobs.js 
Jobs.js: ASCII text

This output means: unix file endings.

Zitat von "ryecoaaron"

I changed the code and rebuilt the package ( incremented version to 0.5.1).

ps make that 0.5.2. I had to run dos2unix on all of the files?? I was editing them in Linux and even when I edit other files, I've never had that problem.