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Title: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP HELP!!
Post by: Sharif George on September 23, 2003, 11:57:42 AM

I am having serious problems with my backup regime, I need help (mental as well as technical)

I have just tried to manually perform a backup to w/s using Adv Backup/Restore and got this error message

__________MESSAGE STARTS___________________________
Content-type: text/html
Software error:
Error occurred while deleting old mysql dumps.

For help, please send mail to the webmaster (admin@gimmehelp.com), giving this error message and the time and date of the error.
________MESSAGE ENDS_______________________________

Now The automatic backup to W/s wont start, the manual backup won't start and the tape backup hates my Travan Drive.  I have this problem also on another system (that doesn't have a tape drive).  This is meant to backup to w/s and then we dump it onto a DVD.

Anyone got any suggestions on either of these two probs.  I am running 5.6 with updates.

Thanks y'all
MR Slunk

"Nice town I'll Take It"

Title: Re: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP HELP!!
Post by: Dik Dirk on September 25, 2003, 01:43:33 AM

well. i can't give you the technical advice you need. for your mental state use this: http://www.internet-pharmacy-rx.com/prozac.html ;-)

Title: Re: BACKUP BACKUP BACKUP HELP!!
Post by: Rob Wellesley on September 26, 2003, 01:56:49 AM

run the prebackup and postbackup events at command line and see if that dumps and removes the mysql.dump

/sbin/e-smith/signal-event pre-backup
/sbin/e-smith/signal-event post-backup

check in /home/e-smith/db/mysql   (5.6)  as you go.

In fact check first - should be empty - if not try removing it "manually" first

rob

Title: THANKS ROB
Post by: Sharif George on September 27, 2003, 05:42:01 PM

Rob

thank you it "worked" I manually ran the lines as suggested and they "successfully" deleted the log file then ran the backup again and it worked (phew)

Thanks Rob

and if there is anything I can ever do to help let me know

Sharif

Title: Re: Same problem, no solution.
Post by: Jarkor on December 11, 2003, 08:06:50 PM

Hi everybody...

I'm having the same problem with dmc-mitel-adv-backup-restore-0.0.1-5.noarch.rpm and e-smith 5.6 with lastest updates applied.
I follow Rob Wellesley's recommendations, and also look at /home/e-smith/db/mysql and it's empty (wasn't empty before doing the signal-event stuff). I'm having the same error.
I'll really appreciate any help about this problem.

tnx,
Jarkor

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Title: Re: Same problem, no solution.
Post by: Jarkor on December 11, 2003, 08:31:06 PM

I also try restarting the server, but the same occurs.

regards,
Jarkor