FreeBSD Install Rsnapshot Filesystem Snapshot Backup Utility

To install rsnapshot on FreeBSD, you will need to have root privileges or access to a user with sudo privileges.

1. First, update the package repository by running the following command:

sudo pkg update

2. Install rsnapshot by running the following command:

sudo pkg install rsnapshot

3. Once the installation is complete, you can start using rsnapshot. The configuration file for rsnapshot is located at /usr/local/etc/rsnapshot.conf. You can edit this file to customize the behavior of rsnapshot.

4. To run rsnapshot, use the following command:

rsnapshot [options] [config]

Replace "[options]" with any command-line options that you want to use, and "[config]" with the path to the configuration file (if you are using a configuration file other than the default).

That's it! rsnapshot should now be installed on your FreeBSD system. You can use it to create filesystem snapshots and perform backups.

Note: If you want to run rsnapshot automatically on a regular basis, you can use a tool such as cron to schedule it. To do this, you can create a crontab entry that runs rsnapshot at the desired intervals. For example, to run rsnapshot daily at midnight, you can add the following line to the crontab file:

0 0 * * * rsnapshot daily

This will run the "daily" backup action as defined in the rsnapshot configuration file. You can also use other actions (such as "hourly" or "weekly") depending on your needs.