Steve Redmond wrote:
> 
> I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of
> backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been
> working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups"
> 
> Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get the usual:
> 
>   "Reply from server was: ok: requested backup of hostname" message
> 
> No errors appear in the log other than:
> 
>   2009-06-09 15:54:17 User backuppc requested backup of hostname (hostname)
> 
> 
> 
> Going through some debugging steps, I ran this:-
> 
> backuppc@backupbox:/usr/share/backuppc/bin$ ./BackupPC_dump -v -f hostname
> Exiting because backups are disabled with $Conf{BackupsDisable} = 2
> nothing to do
> 
> 
> This is however incorrect, as the config file clearly says:-
> 
> $Conf{BackupsDisable} = '0';
> 
> 
> Any pointers on further steps for diagnosing this problem?

The usual reason for backups stopping is that your disk space is nearly 
full but the error message makes this look like some other problem.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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