On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 20:48 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote: > Winston Chan wrote: > > >>> 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." > >> Perhaps the /var/lib file system is full? > >> > >> If not, does the backuppc user have permissions to write in > >> /var/lib/backuppc/log? > >> > >> Craig > > > > I hadn't thought about the file system being full. After checking just > > now, this is not the answer. /var/lib has 48G available on my main hard > > drive. /var/lib/backuppc, to which the spare hard drive is mounted, has > > 59G available. > > > > The directory /var/lib/backuppc/log is owned by backuppc and is in the > > backuppc group. Its permission is 750. All files in it also are owned by > > backuppc and are in the backuppc group. They all have 640 permission. > > There's also a possibility of running out of inodes. Does > 'df -i' look reasonable? > It looks reasonable - over 14,000,000 free.
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