From: Tony N. <tn...@st...> - 2004-07-29 19:01:02
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I sent a post a couple of days ago about this, but haven't seen any response. One of my critical machines is backed up using a cron job (same one works for many other machines).. this machine always logs this message: 2004-07-29 02:00:01 User backuppc requested backup of www.instihire.com, but one is currently running I have verified that there is none running, and looking at host status, you see that it's not getting backed up. What can I check here? I believe if I remove pc/www.instihire.com/LOCK the backup will run tonight, but I don't want to have to remember to do it every day.. and a cron job is just a bad idea.. unless the job can check if a backup is actually in progress. TIA -- Tony Nelson Director of IT Operations Starpoint Solutions LLC 115 Broadway, 2nd Fl New York, NY 10006 This email message from Starpoint Solutions LLC is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Starpoint Solutions shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. |
From: Justin G. <jgu...@gm...> - 2004-07-29 23:18:37
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On Thu, 29 Jul 2004 14:59:17 -0400, Tony Nelson <tn...@st...> wrote: > I sent a post a couple of days ago about this, but haven't seen any response. > One of my critical machines is backed up using a cron job (same one works for > many other machines).. this machine always logs this message: > > 2004-07-29 02:00:01 User backuppc requested backup of www.instihire.com, but one > is currently running > > I have verified that there is none running, and looking at host status, you see > that it's not getting backed up. > > What can I check here? > > I believe if I remove pc/www.instihire.com/LOCK the backup will run tonight, but > I don't want to have to remember to do it every day.. and a cron job is just a > bad idea.. unless the job can check if a backup is actually in progress. Why aren't you scheduling the backups through BackupPC's configuration files? There should be no need to schedule backups through cron, at least that I can think of. On a similar note, I did an archive for the first time today, and only after I had started it I realized I wanted gzip and not bzip2 compression. I clicked the 'stop/dequeue archive' button, and it stopped the job and the archive host's status page didn't list any running jobs, but the main status page still listed the archive job as running and it wouldn't let me start a new archive job. I had to stop and restart the backuppc service to fix this. -- Justin Guenther IT Analyst CrownAg International Inc. 250 Henderson Drive Regina, SK, Canada S4N 5P7 Tel: (306) 522-8111 Email: jus...@cr... |
From: Tony N. <tn...@st...> - 2004-07-30 18:52:22
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Quoting Justin Guenther <jgu...@gm...>: [snip] > Why aren't you scheduling the backups through BackupPC's configuration > files? There should be no need to schedule backups through cron, at > least that I can think of. > Actually, this machine has a DB on it, and it get's dumped to the file system at 2am. I want to ensure the BackupPC backup of the system runs AFTER the DB Dump. This email message from Starpoint Solutions LLC is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Starpoint Solutions shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. |
From: Tony N. <tn...@st...> - 2004-08-02 18:42:08
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I can't find Craig's reply to reply to.. so I'm replying to my original post so everyone will have the information. I changed the cron scheduling of my backup such that it didn't coincide with a BackupPC Scheduled wakeup and that seems to have cleared up all the problems. -- Tony Nelson Director of IT Operations Starpoint Solutions LLC 115 Broadway, 2nd Fl New York, NY 10006 Quoting Tony Nelson <tn...@st...>: > I sent a post a couple of days ago about this, but haven't seen any response. > > One of my critical machines is backed up using a cron job (same one works > for > many other machines).. this machine always logs this message: > > 2004-07-29 02:00:01 User backuppc requested backup of www.instihire.com, but > one > is currently running > > I have verified that there is none running, and looking at host status, you > see > that it's not getting backed up. > > What can I check here? > > I believe if I remove pc/www.instihire.com/LOCK the backup will run tonight, > but > I don't want to have to remember to do it every day.. and a cron job is just > a > bad idea.. unless the job can check if a backup is actually in progress. > > TIA > > -- > Tony Nelson > Director of IT Operations > Starpoint Solutions LLC > 115 Broadway, 2nd Fl > New York, NY 10006 > > > > > > This email message from Starpoint Solutions LLC is for the sole use of the > intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged > information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is > prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender > by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Opinions, > conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the > official business of Starpoint Solutions shall be understood as neither given > nor endorsed by it. > This email message from Starpoint Solutions LLC is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain confidential and privileged information. Any unauthorized review, use, disclosure or distribution is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Opinions, conclusions and other information in this message that do not relate to the official business of Starpoint Solutions shall be understood as neither given nor endorsed by it. |