Thanks for the response,
The status.pl file is present, and is being written to, I see a  
current file, plus an hour old file "status.pl.old"
Do you have any other suggestions where to look?

I realized I mis-spoke in my original email, we didn't have to fully  
restore the array, it was just a simple rebuild.  One of the disks  
crashed, and was replaced, and the array was rebuilt.  The box did  
crash one due to a problem with the rebuild, but everything else on  
the box is running fine now, but the email problem did seem to start  
after the RAID was rebuilt.

Thanks.

--Peter




On Oct 17, 2008, at 11:10 AM, Stephen Joyce wrote:

> 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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