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Morta

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Registered: 2019-07-07

Posts: 660

Timer for rsnapshot service

Hi I have a weekly timer for rsnapshot.service

The timer looks like and is under /etc/systemd/system/timers.targets.wants

[Unit]
Description=rsnapshot weekly backup
Requires=rsnapshot.service

[Timer]
Unit=rsnapshot.service
OnCalendar=weekly
Persistent=true

[Install]
WantedBy=timers.target.wants

The systemd service loooks like this

The file is under /etc/systemd/system/multi-user.target.wants

[Unit]
Description=rsnapshot weekly backup
Requires=NetworkManager.service home-backup.automount
Wants=rsnapshot.timer

[Service]
User=root
Group=root
Type=oneshot
Nice=19
IOSchedulingClass=idle
ExecStart=/usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly

 sudo systemctl status rsnapshot.timer 
● rsnapshot.timer - rsnapshot weekly backup
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rsnapshot.timer; enabled; vendor preset: disabled)
     Active: active (waiting) since Fri 2022-06-24 17:06:59 CEST; 1 day 1h ago
      Until: Fri 2022-06-24 17:06:59 CEST; 1 day 1h ago
    Trigger: Mon 2022-06-27 00:00:00 CEST; 1 day 5h left
   Triggers: ● rsnapshot.service

Jun 24 17:06:59 lapt0p systemd[1]: Started rsnapshot daily backup.

Why there stand daily backup?

[morta@lapt0p system]$ sudo systemctl status rsnapshot.service
● rsnapshot.service - rsnapshot weekly backup
     Loaded: loaded (/etc/systemd/system/rsnapshot.service; static)
     Active: activating (start) since Sat 2022-06-25 18:39:37 CEST; 45s ago
TriggeredBy: ● rsnapshot.timer
   Main PID: 96180 (rsnapshot)
      Tasks: 2 (limit: 37713)
     Memory: 7.9M
        CPU: 482ms
     CGroup: /system.slice/rsnapshot.service
             ├─96180 /usr/bin/perl -w /usr/bin/rsnapshot weekly
             └─96184 /usr/bin/rm -rf /home/backup/BACKUP/lapt0p/weekly.3/

Jun 25 18:39:37 lapt0p systemd[1]: Starting rsnapshot weekly backup...

What is wrong?

The service is executing properly if I do systemctl start rsnapshot.service

Last edited by Morta (2022-06-25 16:42:32)

Morta

Member

Registered: 2019-07-07

Posts: 660

Re: Timer for rsnapshot service

Nobody?