It is a SATA drive as is the main drive. Winston
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 09:54 -0600, Ciarlotta, Aaron wrote: > That spare hard drive wouldn't happen to be an external USB or Firewire, > would it? > > > Aaron Ciarlotta > Linux/UNIX Systems Guru > > > > -----Original Message----- > 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 > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > - > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join > SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDE > V > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/ > The information in this electronic mail message is sender's > business Confidential and may be legally privileged. It is > intended solely for the addressee(s). Access to this Internet > electronic mail message by anyone else is unauthorized. If > you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, > distribution or any action taken or omitted to be taken in > reliance on it is prohibited and may be unlawful. The sender > believes that this E-mail and any attachments were free of > any virus, worm, Trojan horse, and/or malicious code when > sent. This message and its attachments could have been > infected during transmission. By reading the message and > opening any attachments, the recipient accepts full > responsibility for taking protective and remedial action about > viruses and other defects. Travelport Inc. is not liable for any loss > or damage arising in any way from this message or its > attachments. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
