Re: [BackupPC-users] SOLVED: backups not working - backupdisable picking up config incorrectly

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Redmond
Solved: For reference if anyone else has this problem, it seems that at some point (presumably to stop backups) someone has changed the FullPeriod option to -1, which upon reading the comments in greater detail seems to disable backups from running. Having changed this to a positive value - I ca

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-10 Thread Steve Redmond
On Jun 09, Les Mikesell wrote: > > The usual reason for backups stopping is that your disk space is nearly > full but the error message makes this look like some other problem. > There's well over 600 gigs available on the current storage pool so I don't think this is the issue. I've just gone t

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Redmond
On Jun 09, Chris Robertson wrote: > > How certain? ;o) > 100% ;-) > Fair enough, but is it possible that $Conf{BackupsDisable} is set twice > in this one file? > When you performed your grep, you stated "nothing turned up". Does that > mean that nothing UNEXPECTED showed up, or nothing at a

Re: [BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Redmond
Hiya, Thanks for your reply. > I assume this means the main config file. There are also per-host > config files that will override the main one. Correct. I have checked that there were no overriding settings in other configuration files. Did a grep on the entire configuration directory to be

[BackupPC-users] backups not working - backupdisable picking up incorrectly

2009-06-09 Thread Steve Redmond
Hi, I've run in to a bit of a strange issue. We have a large number of backups running on backuppc and up until recently they have all been working fine. Now I see everything as Idle with aging "last backups" Now, when I attempt to kick backups off manually I get the usual: "Reply from server