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Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups vanish nightly...

2010-01-21 15:51:07
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Backups vanish nightly...
From: Don Krause <dkrause AT optivus DOT com>
To: Craig Barratt <cbarratt AT users.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 12:49:28 -0800
On Jan 21, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Craig Barratt wrote:

> Don writes:
> 
>> The numbered directories are gone. I only have "0" from last nights backup, 
>> which is 0.3 days old, and it replaced the one from the day before..
> 
> Please look in the host's LOG file.  Do you see messages like:
> 
>    2005-02-06 11:20:55 removing old full backup 0
> 
> If not, then it appears something other than BackupPC is
> removing or trashing the files.
> 
> If so, then BackupPC is removing the backups, and the only
> explanation I can think of is the $Conf{FullKeepCnt} ends
> up being 0.  Could you have a syntax error in your main or
> per-PC config.pl files?  Eg: try running this:
> 
>    perl PATH_TO_MAIN_CONFIG/config.pl
>    perl PATH_TO_PER_HOST_CONFIG/config.pl
> 
> Craig
> 


llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib # perl /etc/BackupPC/config.pl
llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib # perl /etc/BackupPC/pc/calib.pl 
llupbt2:/export/facility/BackupPC/pc/calib # 

No instances of "removing" in the log files either..

Last nights log is interesting in that at 1am it claims to be starting 
incremental backups..

2010-01-21 01:00:01 Started incr backup on g2disun (pid=31638, share=/)
2010-01-21 01:00:01 Started incr backup on gantry3 (pid=31639, share=/)
2010-01-21 01:00:01 Started incr backup on delta (pid=31643, share=/)
2010-01-21 01:00:04 Started incr backup on gantry2 (pid=31675, share=/)
2010-01-21 01:00:09 Started incr backup on gantry3 (pid=31639, share=/usr)
2010-01-21 01:00:14 Started incr backup on gantry2 (pid=31675, share=/usr)
2010-01-21 01:00:22 Started incr backup on delta (pid=31643, share=/usr)
2010-01-21 01:00:48 Started incr backup on gantry3 (pid=31639, share=/var)
2010-01-21 01:00:48 Started incr backup on delta (pid=31643, share=/export)
2010-01-21 01:00:53 Started incr backup on gantry2 (pid=31675, share=/var)

Then, 2 hours later..

2010-01-21 03:51:12 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/)
2010-01-21 03:52:19 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/usr)
2010-01-21 03:57:04 Finished crabs (BackupPC_link crabs)
2010-01-21 03:58:15 Started full backup on gantry3 (pid=452, share=/export/switc
hyard)
2010-01-21 04:00:00 Next wakeup is 2010-01-21 05:00:00
2010-01-21 04:04:54 Started full backup on gantry3 (pid=452, share=/export/ingre
s_back)
2010-01-21 04:04:58 Finished full backup on gantry3
2010-01-21 04:04:58 Running BackupPC_link gantry3 (pid=569)
2010-01-21 04:04:59 Started full backup on ebl-recovery (pid=571, share=/)
2010-01-21 04:05:04 Finished gantry3 (BackupPC_link gantry3)
2010-01-21 04:05:06 Backup failed on ebl-recovery (Unable to read 4 bytes)
2010-01-21 04:05:09 Started full backup on g1imgreg (pid=579, share=/)
2010-01-21 04:11:13 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/var)
2010-01-21 04:12:07 Started full backup on gantry2 (pid=489, share=/export/gantr
y2)


Thanks for you time!
--
Don Krause                                                                   



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