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Title: Can't get Workstation Backup to work
Post by: edform on August 09, 2011, 03:22:07 PM
I've been trying all morning to get the standard Workstation backup to work on my SME 8.0b6 server with no success. The idea is to backup onto my Buffalo Linkstation which is network connected and fully visible at all workstations so I chose 'cifs' as the workstation type. The linkstation is called 'LS-GL77E' and the share available is actually called 'share'. After setup the settings are confirmed as...

Backup is Enabled.
Backup is made on LAN workstation LS-GL77E via cifs
Destination backup share folder is share
Login is edform
Password is ********
Number of rotating backup sets is 2
Number of daily backups contained in each set is 7
Compression level (0-9) of backup is 6
Daily backup occurs at 14:10
Each daily backup session is cleanly timed out after 8 hours.except full backups which are cleanly timed out after 24 hours
Full backup sessions (new backup set) are allowed everyday

When the correct time comes around the system drops a series of lines into the message log and then nothing else happens. The log entries are...

Aug  9 14:10:01 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: OLD 1312895401=(undefined)
Aug  9 14:10:01 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: NEW 1312895401=backup_record
Aug  9 14:10:01 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: OLD 1312895401=backup_record
Aug  9 14:10:01 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: NEW 1312895401=backup_record|StartEpochTime|1312895401
Aug  9 14:10:01 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: OLD 1312895401=backup_record|StartEpochTime|1312895401
Aug  9 14:10:01 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: NEW 1312895401=backup_record|BackupType|workstation|StartEpochTime|1312895401
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: Processing event: pre-backup 
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/actions/generic_template_expand
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: expanding /etc/dar/DailyBackup.dcf 
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: generic_template_expand=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|generic_template_expand|Start|1312895402 3512|End|1312895402 485320|Elapsed|0.481808
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S10mysql-delete-dumped-tables|Start|1312895402 486052|End|1312895402 491214|Elapsed|0.005162
Aug  9 14:10:02 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S20mysql-dump-tables
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: S20mysql-dump-tables=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S20mysql-dump-tables|Start|1312895402 492057|End|1312895403 27058|Elapsed|0.535001
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: Running event handler: /etc/e-smith/events/pre-backup/S50rewind-tape
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx esmith::event[4570]: S50rewind-tape=action|Event|pre-backup|Action|S50rewind-tape|Start|1312895403 27889|End|1312895403 266698|Elapsed|0.238809
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: OLD 1312895401=backup_record|BackupType|workstation|StartEpochTime|1312895401
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: NEW 1312895401=backup_record|BackupType|workstation|EndEpochTime|1312895403|StartEpochTime|1312895401
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: OLD 1312895401=backup_record|BackupType|workstation|EndEpochTime|1312895403|StartEpochTime|1312895401
Aug  9 14:10:03 mini-itx /sbin/e-smith/do_backupwk[4569]: /home/e-smith/db/backups: NEW 1312895401=backup_record|BackupType|workstation|EndEpochTime|1312895403|Result|backup:7424|StartEpochTime|1312895401

If I change the workstation type to nfs it still doesn't work and the log is much the same except it has the line...

Aug  9 14:28:04 mini-itx kernel: FS-Cache: Loaded

...as the 5th last line.

I've looked in Bugzilla and there is nothing to suggest that the system should not work, so I must be doing something wrong. Can anyone set me straight or point out my errors?

Ed Form
Title: Re: Can't get Workstation Backup to work
Post by: Stefano on August 09, 2011, 03:32:15 PM
Ed, please raise a bug, thank you.. every error should be at least logged
Title: Re: Can't get Workstation Backup to work
Post by: edform on August 09, 2011, 03:42:40 PM
Ed, please raise a bug, thank you.. every error should be at least logged

Done! 6697

Ed Form
Title: Re: Can't get Workstation Backup to work
Post by: CharlieBrady on August 09, 2011, 10:55:50 PM
I've looked in Bugzilla and there is nothing to suggest that the system should not work, so I must be doing something wrong.

Don't make that assumption. It should "just work". If it doesn't, create a bug in bugzilla (as you have been told multiple times before).