I got your logs and analysed them and it looks a little strange, but are you trying to do a backup from a closed server? At first there's this:
INFO|wrapper|11-05-21 13:55:33|received service control 1 INFO|wrapper|11-05-21 13:55:33|reporting status 1 INFO|wrapper|11-05-21 13:55:33|Win service stop - timeout: 30000 INFO|wrapper|11-05-21 13:55:33|Win service wrapper.control -> stopping application INFO|wrapper|11-05-21 13:55:33|set state RUNNING->STATE_USER_STOP INFO|wrapper|11-05-21 13:55:33|stopping process with pid/timeout 3492 45000 INFO|3492/0|11-05-21 13:55:33|controller sending a stop command INFO|3492/0|11-05-21 13:55:33|Controller State: LOGGED_ON -> WAITING_CLOSED FINEST|3492/0|11-05-21 13:55:33|May 21, 2011 1:55:33 PM org.neo4j.server.logging.Logger log FINEST|3492/0|11-05-21 13:55:33|INFO: Neo4j Server shutdown initiated by kill signal INFO|3492/0|11-05-21 13:55:33|wrapper manager received stop command INFO|3492/0|11-05-21 13:55:34|Controller State: WAITING_CLOSED -> USER_STOP Which looks like a user or the OS is shutting it down. Then right after that is this exception: java.nio.channels.ClosedByInterruptException at java.nio.channels.spi.AbstractInterruptibleChannel.end(Unknown Source) at sun.nio.ch.FileChannelImpl.write(Unknown Source) at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.transaction.TxLog.txDone(TxLog.java:223) at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.transaction.TxManager.commit(TxManager.java:704) at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.transaction.TxManager.commit(TxManager.java:584) at org.neo4j.kernel.impl.transaction.TransactionImpl.commit(TransactionImpl.java:104) at org.neo4j.kernel.TopLevelTransaction.finish(TopLevelTransaction.java:85) at org.neo4j.server.rest.web.DatabaseActions.createRelationship(DatabaseActions.java:442) at org.neo4j.server.rest.web.RestfulGraphDatabase.createRelationship(RestfulGraphDatabase.java:262) at sun.reflect.GeneratedMethodAccessor68.invoke(Unknown Source) at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(Unknown Source) at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Unknown Source) at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.model.method.dispatch.AbstractResourceMethodDispatchProvider$ResponseOutInvoker._dispatch(AbstractResourceMethodDispatchProvider.java:184) at com.sun.jersey.server.impl.model.method.dispatch.ResourceJavaMethodDispatcher.dispatch(ResourceJavaMethodDispatcher.java:67) Which I think just is a second failure for trying to commit a transaction in a closed database. After that I see several attempts to do a backup, which obviously will not work on a closed database. My conclusion is that the reason you could not get a backup from the server was that it had been shut down. 2011/5/22 Kevin Dieter <kevin.die...@megree.com> > Here's what I see in the messages.log when I tried the backup command: > > Fri May 20 07:00:24 PDT 2011: Found dead channel [id: 0x3d36acb6, / > 127.0.0.1:56110 :> /127.0.0.1:6362], SlaveContext[ID:0, eventIdentifier:0, > [(lucene-index, 15726285), (nioneodb, 38747027)]] > Fri May 20 07:00:24 PDT 2011: Removed [id: 0x3d36acb6, /127.0.0.1:56110 :> > / > 127.0.0.1:6362], SlaveContext[ID:0, eventIdentifier:0, [(lucene-index, > 15726285), (nioneodb, 38747027)]] > > It also seems the server becomes somewhat unstable after this and > eventually > I need to stop and restart it (and it always seems to detect it as a > non-clean shutdown and spends a fair amount of time applying transactions > to > restore the state of the server). > > Does this help? > > Kevin > > > > On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Mattias Persson > <matt...@neotechnology.com>wrote: > > > Could you post the contents of the messages.log from the database > > directory? > > It may be that it encounters an exception on the database you're getting > > the > > backup from. If you're running neo4j server the file would be > > <neo4j-server-directory>\data\graph.db\messages.log or if you run an > > embedded database it would be <neo4j-database-directory>\messages.log. > That > > would could give hints about the problem. > > > > Are you seeing more/other stacktraces btw? Could you post full > stacktraces? > > > > 2011/5/20 Kevin Dieter <kevin.die...@megree.com> > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > I am trying to set up a scheduled backup for my neo4j database and I > have > > > been unable to get the backup to run. > > > > > > See below for the commands I am running (first to do a full backup and > > then > > > incremental). > > > > > > The weird thing is that I was able to run the full backup, and > > incremental > > > successfully last night using the exact same commands. > > > > > > Any idea why I am getting the timeout exception? > > > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > Kevin > > > ----------------------------------------------- > > > > > > C:\cURL>C:\neo4J\neo4j-enterprise-1.3-windows\bin\neo4jbackup -full > -from > > > single://localhost:6362 -to c:/neo4J-backup > > > Performing full backup from 'single://localhost:6362' > > > Exception in thread "main" java.lang.RuntimeException: c:/neo4J-backup > > > already contains a database > > > at org.neo4j.backup.OnlineBackup.full(OnlineBackup.java:69) > > > at org.neo4j.backup.BackupTool.doBackup(BackupTool.java:119) > > > at org.neo4j.backup.BackupTool.main(BackupTool.java:83) > > > > > > C:\cURL>C:\neo4J\neo4j-enterprise-1.3-windows\bin\neo4jbackup > > -incremental > > > -from single://localhost:6362 -to c:/neo4J-backup > > > Performing incremental backup from 'single://localhost:6362' > > > Couldn't connect to 'single://localhost:6362', > > org.neo4j.com.ComException: > > > org.jboss.netty.handler.queue.BlockingReadTimeoutException > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Neo4j mailing list > > > User@lists.neo4j.org > > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Mattias Persson, [matt...@neotechnology.com] > > Hacker, Neo Technology > > www.neotechnology.com > > _______________________________________________ > > Neo4j mailing list > > User@lists.neo4j.org > > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > > > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user > -- Mattias Persson, [matt...@neotechnology.com] Hacker, Neo Technology www.neotechnology.com _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user