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#4605 Filesystem Backup - Command to run after backup not running
I have a bash script that i want to run after a filesystem backup is complete. i can run it from a terminal no problem. It does not seem to run when the backup completes. I also have a script that runs before the backup starts and this works fine without problems. Can someone verify if post backup command is working trying to run a bash file?
Does your backup complete successfully? If not, the script won't be run ..
When i run the backup manually, i see a few "file changed as I read it" entries in the output. The files were a few log files. anyway to ignore this and complete successfully?
I found the setting to ignore file access errors like this one. I checked this and ran the backup again. I still get the file changed as i read it error even when ignore read errors is set to yes.
Last edit: Sk1llSh0t 2015-08-31
So the way i corrected the above error is i had to add --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed to the extra command line parameters. I still get a failed. the output is below. any help on this would be great.
Performing backup of / to /VPS_Backup-%Y_%m_%d.tar.gz ..
tar: Removing leading
/' from member names tar: Removing leading/' from hard link targets.. backup failed!
i'm out of ideas. Here is what i have currently and it appears to run without any errors
Extra Parameters: --warning=no-file-changed --warning=no-file-removed -C /
Directories to backup: .
This is my current setup for backing up. i also have ignore read errors checked. I get no errors or warnings and it still says it fails in the end. The backup file is created. Not sure what else to do.
Unfortunately those flags cause the tar command to not output any error messages, but still exit with a failure status code when it completes.
Do you have any suggestions for getting around this? The only workaround i can think of is to setup a cron job that runs my post backup script after the filesystem backup runs. It doesn't appear there is a way to ignore all errors. For whatever reason, the filesystem backup fails everytime and there is no way to bypass it. Thanks for any help you can provide!
Last edit: Sk1llSh0t 2015-09-01
Unfortunately not - the tar command just behaves this way :-(
Or are you looking for a way to have the post-backup command always run even if the backup appears to fail?
I'm looking for a way for the post-backup command to run even if tar "fails".
Ok, I will add a checkbox for this in the next Webmin release.
Great! Thanks. I appreciate that