Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Currently running

[Justin G. <jgu...@gm...>]

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.

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Justin Guenther
IT Analyst
CrownAg International Inc.
250 Henderson Drive
Regina, SK, Canada S4N 5P7
Tel: (306) 522-8111
Email: jus...@cr...