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Subject: Re: [webmin-l] fs backup in limbo state
From: "Jamie Cameron" <jcameron () webmin ! com>
Date: 2006-10-30 19:43:34
Message-ID: 1162237414.25402 () www ! virtualmin ! com
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On 29/Oct/2006 23:43 Pat Erler wrote ..
> ah, there we have it! "before backup command failed"
> i let run a /usr/bin/killall backup.pl run before my allnightly backups,
> as written here some weeks ago, when the network connection is unstable,
> it's possible that there are backup jobs that hang. the above command
> fails because there are no hanging backup jobs.
That would certainly explain it ..
> two suggestions:
>
> - please make an option "run backup job even when command failes"
You could do this already by putting
; /bin/true
at the end of the command.
> - please take a failed command before the backup job as a "failed backup
> job" and send a mail as you do with "regularly" filed jobs,
This already happens though - at least for Webmin 1.300.
- Jamie
> regards,
>
> PAT
>
> On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 02:26:36 +0100, Jamie Cameron <jcameron@webmin.com>
> wrote:
>
> > That message appears if the backup is launched as a background job.
> > You can start it in the fore1ground by adjusting the appropriate option
> > on
> > the Module Config page.
> >
> > - Jamie
> >
> > On 29/Oct/2006 14:33 Pat Erler wrote ..
> >> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:59:39 +0100, Jamie Cameron <jcameron@webmin.com>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Ok, so that can't be the cause :(
> >> > What happens if you run the backup from within the web interface,
> so
> >> that
> >> > it dislays the progress of the dump command?
> >>
> >> Starting background backup process. You can monitor its progress in
> the
> >> Running Backup Jobs section on the module's main page, and will be
> >> notified of its final status via email
> >>
> >> is this new?! ;)
> >>
> >> i can't find the "running backup jobs" anywehere..
> >>
> >> PAT
> >>
> >> >
> >> > - Jamie
> >> >
> >> > On 29/Oct/2006 13:40 Pat Erler wrote ..
> >> >> no:
> >> >>
> >> >> # ps ax|grep back
> >> ]
> >> >> 10528 pts/19 S+ 0:00 grep back
> >> >>
> >> >> regards,
> >> >>
> >> >> PAT
> >> >> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 21:59:47 +0100, Jamie Cameron
> >> <jcameron@webmin.com>
> >> >> wrote:
> >> >>
> >> >> > On 28/Oct/2006 22:59 Pat Erler wrote ..
> >> >> >> hi,
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> i use the filesystem backup extensively (via ftp), but recently
> >> >> >> something
> >> >> >> went wrong. because of en external event, one job hung, i
> >> terminated
> >> >> it
> >> >> >> and since then (i think), no job is run at night (they are
> >> supposed
> >> >> to
> >> >> >> run sequentially at midnight).
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> in crontab -l i have the line
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> @daily /etc/webmin/fsdump/backup.pl 113791152285552
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> and when i run it from the terminal i get a "Terminated" shortly
> >> >> after.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> i can remember, that i deleted some *.status files from
> >> >> >> /etc/webmin/fsdump.
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> and i changed my tmp directory some days ago (although the problem
> >> is
> >> >> >> older).
> >> >> >>
> >> >> >> any ideas, jamie?
> >> >> >
> >> >> > Are there any other backup.pl processes still running? If a backup
> >> >> starts
> >> >> > and it detects that one is already running for the same job, the
> >> new
> >> >> one
> >> >> > will automatically exit.
> >> >> >
> >> >> > - Jamie
> >> >> >
> >> >> >
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