Topic: backup prodigal son

[Neririn]

I got sick of flex backup's slow speed to tape and went and installed arkiea.  While it is faster, I would just rather get back to where my box backs itself up at night automatically.

I am daily getting:
Can't exec "/etc/e-smith/events/actions/tape-backup-arkeia": No such file or directory at /sbin/e-smith/do_backup line 52.
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: -1

In my do_backup cron reports.

Having sowed my wild backup oats, I am ready to come home.  Can someone help me get back to flex?  OR fix so that arkiea automagically backs up every night?

Thanks in advance.

Neru

[Neririn]

Ok, seems like I may be stuck?  Will backing up, reinstalling, then restoring my backup just bring back the same problem?

[CharlieBrady]

I am daily getting:
Can't exec "/etc/e-smith/events/actions/tape-backup-arkeia": No such file or directory at /sbin/e-smith/do_backup line 52.
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: -1
...
Having sowed my wild backup oats, I am ready to come home.  Can someone help me get back to flex?  OR fix so that arkiea automagically backs up every night?

Try:

/sbin/e-smith/config backup Program flexbackup
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event conf-backup

[Neririn]

I tried what you said, and the do_backup script returned.

Backup terminated: pre-backup failed - status: 256

[CharlieBrady]

I tried what you said, and the do_backup script returned.

Backup terminated: pre-backup failed - status: 256

You'll need to look in /var/log/messages to determine what the problem is there.

[Neririn]

Ok, I found that after the reboot, the module for my SCSI card hadnt been loaded, a modprobe fixed that.  Now I get this error again.

Can't exec "/etc/e-smith/events/actions/tape-backup-arkeia": No such file or directory at /sbin/e-smith/do_backup line 52.
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: -1

I dont want arkeia, I want to return to flex

[DanB35]

It's easy enough to configure Arkeia to do a scheduled backup using the Java GUI they have available for download.  That doesn't get you back to flexbackup, of course, but it would get you a regular backup.  You can also configure it (as I have) to do a full backup weekly and a differential or incremental backup every other day, which saves quite a bit of time and tape space.  Now I just need to find out what directories to restore to match the factory restore scheme...

[raem]

DanB35

> Now I just need to find out what directories to
> restore to match the factory restore scheme...

Check the sme FAQs page

[CharlieBrady]

Can't exec "/etc/e-smith/events/actions/tape-backup-arkeia": No such file or directory at /sbin/e-smith/do_backup line 52.
Backup terminated: backup failed - status: -1

My mistake. My advice should have been:

/sbin/e-smith/config setprop backup Program flexbackup
/sbin/e-smith-signal-event conf-backup