Re: [webmin-l] ftp backup sometimes failes

[Jamie C. <jca...@we...>]

On 10/Oct/2006 10:02 Pat Erler wrote ..
> 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.

Try running one manually from within the browser.
 
> i use tar, where would the logs to be found?

If a backup fails, the logs will be emailed to you.

 - Jamie