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Re: [BackupPC-users] Email claims no backups, but it's incorrect

2008-10-17 11:24:54
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Email claims no backups, but it's incorrect
From: Stephen Joyce <stephen AT physics.unc DOT edu>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 17 Oct 2008 11:10:51 -0400 (EDT)
I suspect that you didn't restore BackupPC's status.pl file when you 
restored your RAID. On my hosts it's in /var/log/BackupPC/.

Or I may be off base and you might have deeper problems. :-)

On Fri, 17 Oct 2008, Peter Doherty wrote:

> Hello
>
> My BackupPC server is sending out emails that claims there are no
> backups on some of the machines we backup.  The logs clearly show the
> backups are occurring correctly.
> The email summary does not show that BackupPC even sent the emails.
> One of the emails claimed there had been no backups in 14,000 days,
> clearly a sign that something is confused.
> I think all this might have started after we had a disk failure in the
> RAID, and had to restore the array.
> Any thoughts?
>
> Excerpt from email:
>
>> Dear backups,
>>
>> Your PC (<servername omitted>) has not been successfully backed up
>> for 14167.5 days.
>> Your PC has been correctly backed up 1 times from 0.9 to 14167.5
>> ago.  PC backups should occur automatically when your PC is connected
>> to the network.
>
>
>
> Cheers,
> Peter
>
>
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