Re: [webmin-l] ftp backup sometimes failes

[Pat E. <mai...@pa...>]

On Tue, 10 Oct 2006 18:48:42 +0200, Jamie Cameron <jca...@we...>  
wrote:

> On 9/Oct/2006 23:27 Pat Erler wrote ..
>> hello jamie,
>> 1) my huge /home partition is sometimes not backupped. on the remote  
>> site
>> is a file with 0 bytes created. unfortunately, this prevents the backup
>> on the next day..
>>
>> 2) sometimes all backup.pl jobs seem to stay alive even when backup is
>> finished which prevents the backup on next day. i help myself here with
>> a cron job right before the backup wich killall buckup.pl - but maybe we
>> can find out what's the problem here..
>>
>> are there any logfiles i could look at, debug levels i can raise?
>
> If you execute one of these backup jobs from within Webmin, what is the
> full output that gets displayed? If the FTP connection is failing, I  
> would
> expect some kind of error message to be displayed by the dump/tar  
> command or
> the FTP client program they call..
i execute them by cronjob at night.

i use tar, where would the logs to be found?

PAT