Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands

Jaime, I'm glad the issue is resolved. I don't think your tone was that snippy or rude, although not answering my specific debugging questions and replying with "SMB worked almost 100% when we used backuppc 3.3.1, so I’m not sure why it should be so difficult." is borderline. Helping someone deb

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

>Jamie Burchell wrote on 2018-10-30 09:31:13 - [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC >administrative attention needed email incorrect?]: >> [...] >> Yesterday, I received the following email from the BackupPC process: >> [...] >> > Yesterday 156 hosts were skipped because the file system containing >> > /

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

Yes, these entries are in LOG.0.z: 2018-10-28 01:21:07 Started incr backup on X (pid=5527, share=/var/lib/mysqlbackup) 2018-10-28 01:21:21 Finished incr backup on X 2018-10-28 01:00:00 Disk too full (96%); skipped 39 hosts 2018-10-28 01:00:00 Next wa

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

Holger is correct - the email reports the cumulative number of hosts skipped over the last 24 hours. If you look in the main LOG file you should see timestamped messages for each wakeup, like this: Disk too full (XX%); skipped YY hosts Based on the email message, you should see several of those

Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands

Thanks for the follow up on this thread. The issue is resolved. I had put some items in the global config that had affected some singular configs. Once I corrected the global config and rolled all configs back to the global, it started working (for the most part, but there's a thread about my

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

Hi Thanks for the quick reply. I see, yes that does seem like the most likely explanation. I didn't consider than 156 could be an accumulative value. I didn't manually delete anything, so I'm guessing a clean-up happened. Thanks again Jamie -Original Message- From: Holger Parplies [mailt

Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands

On 2018-10-30 08:04, Holger Parplies wrote: Hi, Jaime Fenton wrote on 2018-10-24 16:17:24 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands]: Also, my apologies if my tone came across as snippy or rude [...] I???m just frustrated with the issues I???m having [...] well ... [...] If I thoug

Re: [BackupPC-users] DHCP backups - only once possible

Hi there, On Tue, 30 Oct 2018, Craig Barratt wrote: I've been reviewing the mail list over the last few months, and there are still a couple of reported issues I'm trying to replicate or learn more about. I'm still looking at the issue I had with BackupPC a couple of months ago (Re: BackupPC

Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

Hi, Jamie Burchell wrote on 2018-10-30 09:31:13 - [[BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?]: > [...] > Yesterday, I received the following email from the BackupPC process: > [...] > > Yesterday 156 hosts were skipped because the file system containing > > /v

Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands

Hi, Jaime Fenton wrote on 2018-10-24 16:17:24 + [Re: [BackupPC-users] Weird backup commands]: > Also, my apologies if my tone came across as snippy or rude [...] I???m just > frustrated with the issues I???m having [...] well ... > [...] > If I thought samba was not going to work, then I wo

[BackupPC-users] BackupPC administrative attention needed email incorrect?

Hi there Yesterday, I received the following email from the BackupPC process: > Subject: BackupPC administrative attention needed > > Yesterday 156 hosts were skipped because the file system containing > /var/lib/BackupPC/ was too full. The threshold in the configuration > file is 95%, w

Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup Error not encountered before

Dear all, I've encountered this same error message several times now. In my case setting the log level to 5 helped to trace the error back to several files which seem to have duplicates. The error message always reads something like: tarExtract: Botch - got multiple pool file matches tarExtra