<backuppc-forum < at > backupcentral.com> wrote: 
I have several servers running BackupPC. They were created at different times 
and in different data centers. They are all on Debiuan Lenny or Debian Squeeze. 
They've all worked just fine until around the 17th of October when they all 
simultanueously stopped sending email to me. Backups are still working, and I 
can see in the logs where BackupPC_Nightly is calling BackupPC_sendEmail every 
night, but no email is coming through. If I manually run BackupPC_sendEmail -u, 
it works and sends me a test email. 

There's no evidence in the system logs of any attempt to send email, successful 
or not, so it looks to me like BackupPC_sendEmail is failing to send anything. 

One other thing that I noticed is that recently it's got to the point where 
running the backups is taking almost a full 24 hours to complete, which could 
be interfering with things, except that one of the hosts has been full for a 
while (and sending me an email every night complaining that it can't do 
anything), and even that one has stopped sending email. 

I didn't notice until now, and the logs have all rolled over far enough that I 
don't have logs for the time before the email stopped sending. 

Does anyone have any idea of what the problem might be, or more places I can 
look for clues? 



Normally with backuppc. no news is good news - that is, it doesn't 
send email if there are no problems to report. Maybe the backups are 
just all up to date. 



Unfortunately not in this case.  I KNOW that it should be sending me email, 
such as the case I said above where one of the servers is full, and up until 
all the email stopped was emailing me every day.  That server is still full, 
and still failing to backup anything, it just decided not to tell me about it.

As I said above, as far as I can tell from the logs, despite BackpPC_sendEmail 
being called every night, it's actually not attempting to send any email (as 
opposed to trying to send an email that then fails to arrive).  I don't 
remember changing anything on those servers in the timeframe of the failure.  
Any ideas?

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