Hey, I have a simple question: are website backups created every time, without consideration for changed files (or data for MySQL DB)? I'm asking this because I'm seeing "holes" in my backups and I wanted to make sure it's because it checks wether there has been changes before backing up again. Thanks!
Thanks Till, Where can I check for errors? I looked into /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log but everything looks OK.
OK I've just discovered there is a script for debugging cron. Nice! Code: php /usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron_debug.php --cronjob=500-backup.inc.php I'm going to try this and see what's happening
OK, so my data is a bit too heavy I suppose because I lost connection from my terminal. Anyway, I can't see anything special either in ispconfig/cron.log or in main syslog... I noticed something weird though: in my tmp/ folder, I have huge temporary files (2 files of exactly 75.4 Gb + a new one of 9 Gb which has been genererated by my test) still present in this tmp/ folder. What does it mean?
Probably your test got interrupted which cause the temp files to stay. remove them manually now. Then you should try to set a different temp folder for the backups under system > server config, it might be that the system /tmp directory runs out of space sometimes which then causes the backup to fail.
The temp folder is on a NFS export with 600 Gb free so I doubt there is not enough space I just removed the 2 big temp files and I'm seeing the 9Gb changing! This means cron_debu.php is still running, right?
Hmmm... this means I won't see anything as I lost my connection. OK, let's wait for the end of this backup. Still running...
I'm not familiar with this screen command. I might need to check this out. OK, now the temp file is blocked at 75.4Gb as before... Backup stopped at 13:59 and I have this in syslog: Code: Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15929]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/cron.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done) Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15930]: (root) CMD ( ^Icheck-valvulad.py) Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15932]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/rtm/bin/rtm 26 > /dev/null 2> /dev/null) Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15933]: (getmail) CMD (/usr/local/bin/run-getmail.sh > /dev/null 2>> /dev/null) Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15934]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/ispconfig/server/server.sh 2>&1 | while read line; do echo `/bin/date` "$line" >> /var/log/ispconfig/cron.log; done) Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15931]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/maldetect/maldet --mkpubpaths >> /dev/null 2>&1) Oct 10 14:00:01 invino CRON[15939]: (www-data) CMD (/var/tmp/gHXxzKRgT >/dev/null 2>&1) And in ispconfig/cron.log : Code: Wed Oct 10 13:59:01 EDT 2018 Wed Oct 10 13:59:01 EDT 2018 Wed Oct 10 13:59:01 EDT 2018 finished. Wed Oct 10 14:00:01 EDT 2018 Wed Oct 10 14:00:01 EDT 2018 What do you think?
That's what I'm thinking too... I was wondering if this had to do with filesize limitation, but the NFS share is hosting a file of 235Gb so it doesn't make sense either. I'm going to move my tmp/ folder under /home and see what happens tomorrow. Thanks for your insight anyway!
Hey Till, I just checked this morning and backups are done perfectly this time, using the new temp folder right on the server! Looks like the NFS share was posing a problem with the ZIP function at one point, when the filesize was reaching a limit. 75.4Gb was the limit for me. I've no idea yet why it's doing this but I will look for further information, just for the sake of understanding. I'll come back here and post by findings ;-)
