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2008-04-25
2013-04-11
  • Greg Herbert

    Greg Herbert - 2008-04-25

    Hello,
    I just installed it and waited a day for it to run, and this is the output I'm getting.. not sure what the issue might be, but it didn't backup any files.

    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 127: date: command not found
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 128: date: command not found
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 129: date: command not found
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 130: date: command not found
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 182: touch: command not found
    Starting backup in directory '/'
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 236: date: command not found
    Full backup last performed about 0 day(s) ago.
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 246: [: too many arguments
    Performing incremental backup using '/root/.simplebackup/timestamp'
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 253: ls: command not found

    Copying files...
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 276: date: command not found
    /home/SimpleBackup/bkup: line 294: touch: command not found
    Done collecting and compressing files; return code 127.
    Done!

    Some help deciphering this would be greatly appreciate. Thank you.

     
    • Greg Herbert

      Greg Herbert - 2008-04-25

      I changed some things in the config file and ran it manually, now it seems to have picked up the "last time it was run" variable properly. and it is performing a full backup  now.
      It does however say that it is "starting backup in directory '/'"
      Which is unsettling, because I configured it to go to /backup (which is a separate drive).
      Is this normal?

       
    • Greg Herbert

      Greg Herbert - 2008-04-29

      Ok, my first message still holds true, the result was the same error list when the cron tried to run the software.

       
    • Greg Herbert

      Greg Herbert - 2008-04-29

      Ok, this time I did actually get it figured out.. there was a extraneous path command in the crontab that must have been overriding the default system path setting. Now it runs error free! woohoo! Thanks for this, it's great.

       
      • Steve Rosen

        Steve Rosen - 2008-04-30

        Greg,

        I'm glad you got it working. The extraneous PATH command must have been in the crontab from something else (other than SLB), right? SLB doesn't write a PATH command to the crontab, though it does add a "SHELL=" line.

        Glad you like the program!

        - Steve

         

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