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Title: backup prodigal son
Post by: Neririn on July 15, 2005, 06:57:41 PM

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

Title: No bites eh?
Post by: Neririn on July 16, 2005, 09:22:26 PM

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

Title: Re: backup prodigal son
Post by: CharlieBrady on July 17, 2005, 05:56:28 AM

Quote from: "Neririn"

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

Title: Thanks for the reply!
Post by: Neririn on July 18, 2005, 01:11:38 AM

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

Backup terminated: pre-backup failed - status: 256

Title: Re: Thanks for the reply!
Post by: CharlieBrady on July 18, 2005, 02:31:49 AM

Quote from: "Neririn"

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.

Title: Next problem
Post by: Neririn on July 18, 2005, 04:27:42 AM

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 :(

Title: backup prodigal son
Post by: DanB35 on November 17, 2005, 02:30:07 AM

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...

Title: backup prodigal son
Post by: raem on November 17, 2005, 03:03:39 AM

DanB35

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

Check the sme FAQs page

Title: Re: Next problem
Post by: CharlieBrady on November 17, 2005, 04:48:47 AM

Quote from: "Neririn"

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