So we recently had a scare where my RAID5 superblock up & disappeared last weekend (thank you modprobe raid5 command for existing, you saved my life!). Now my wife is a graphic designer & had recently done tons of work that she needed access to. So I grabbed my external incremental backup drive, figuring it would have her latest work on it only to find it hadn't been updated since october.
It turns out that whenever RSnapshot updates, it overwrites the cron file & removes my preferred backup times. Which was a problem because my NAS did a powerdown cycle every night for 6 hours.
So as a workaround - because data integrity matters more than drive longevity - I've switched to a 2 hour standby command rather than a power down & the backups are happening normally. I also paid for backblaze & set up a duplicati job.
I'd prefer to have my cake & eat it, too, though. Is there any way to lock down the RSnapshot cron file to save myself this headache?
Thanks in advance!