That spare hard drive wouldn't happen to be an external USB or Firewire,
would it?


Aaron Ciarlotta
Linux/UNIX Systems Guru

 

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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Winston Chan
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2007 8:14 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [BackupPC-users] Unable to connect to BackupPC server error

I had been running BackupPC on an Ubuntu computer for several months to
back the computer to a spare hard drive without problem. About the time
I added a new host (Windows XP computer using Samba), I started getting
the following behavior:

BackupPC backs both hosts properly onto the spare hard drive once or
twice after I reboot the Ubuntu server. Then I get a "Error: Unable to
connect to BackupPC server" error when I attempt to go the web
interface. When I restart BackupPC with "/etc/init.d/backuppc restart",
I get a message "Can't create LOG file /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG at
/usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC line 1735."

I have made sure that the backuppc is the owner of
/var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG. It seems the only way to get backuppc to work
again is to reboot the Ubuntu server. I then can see on the web
interface that the last successful backup (of both hosts) occurred 1 or
2 days after the previous reboot. Then backupPC works for 1 or 2 backups
and the cycle starts again.

What is the cause of this and how can I fix it?

Winston



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