Topic: backup2workstation problems

[del]

Hi All,
I have installed Darrell May's backup to workstation rpm but I can't seem to get it to work! I have set the everything as per the examples in server-manager (obviously using the correct folder and ibay names where appropriate), if I click on backup it says it will start in a few minutes and an email will be sent to admin when it is finished. I get the email to say it is complete, but there is nothing in the shared folder on the windows workstation. Any ideas? Any help is appreciated.
Thanks in advance,
Del

[Cyrus Bharda]

Del,

Have you checked the log to see if there was any error messages, it can be found /var/log/backup2ws/{jobname}.log ?

Other than that it seems wierd that you get the email, but there is nothing in the share?

Cyrus Bharda

[Ray Mitchell]

Do you have a number set for the "Expiry" field for the backup job which specifies how many old backups are retained. If its O, maybe thats the problem ??

Ray

[del]

Hi Cyrus, Hi Ray,

Yes I had got the expiry set to 0, but it still didn't help. Could it be that I am trying to backup to a second HDD in the windows machine? I have created a shared folder on the "C" drive called backup and it seems to work OK, but not when I try to use a shared folder on the "D" drive (the secondary HDD). I will delete the folder and all the backup jobs when I get home and start again and I will post the results here.
Thanks for all your help,
Del

[Ray Mitchell]

del wrote:
> Yes I had got the expiry set to 0, but it still didn't help.

Try setting it to a number, NOT to 0.

> Could it be that I am trying to backup to a second HDD in the
> windows machine? I have created a shared folder on the "C"
> drive called backup and it seems to work OK,

If it works Ok then your procedure is cortrect.

> but not when I try to use a shared folder on
> the "D" drive (the secondary HDD).

I have 2 drives in my W2K workstation and I can backup to either, as long as the drive is shared as a network share it should be OK. You will need to modify your backup job though to backup to the other share location.

> I will delete the folder and all the backup jobs when I
> get home and start again and I will post the results here.

Just try a small job say /root or /opt only for test purposes, it should finish very quickly after starting ie less than 1 minute.

Ray