Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup
I highly recommend installing etckeeper. It puts all of /etc under revision control. I use CentOS which is based on yum/dnf/rpm and it will perform an auto-commit of changed files before updating. I disable that feature so that yum won't update until I manually commit any outstanding configuration changes, to make sure they get a proper change comment. etckeeper uses git by default but you can use another revision control system if you prefer. A minimal knowledge of git is handy for doing manual commits and inspecting your change history. Your distribution should include an etckeeper package. https://www.tecmint.com/manage-etc-with-version-control-using-etckeeper/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup
Your warning is vague and completely unhelpful... Assuming you are using a well-maintained distro and a supported backuppc set of packages, it is extremely unlikely that running system updates and backuppc simultaneously would cause any problems. Since you didn't mention the distro or the maintainer of your backuppc packages, let alone the versions of each or let alone which specific updates were run and whether the problem is reproducible, your advice is vague to the point of irrelevancy... oetschi.ex...@bluewin.ch wrote at about 16:27:51 +0200 on Sunday, August 1, 2021: > Hello backuppc, > This is a message to warn all users: > During a full backup of all my clients the backuppc task went crazy and I > could read in the log file that backuppc wanted to start a backup every > minute until I stopped the task. After that backuppc did not start anymore. > After some days troubleshooting and an advice from google I checked all > client config.pl for correct permissions. I saw that there was only a > config.pl.old file with the creation date of that last full backup but there > was no config.pl file anymore. I copied back the config.pl.old file to > config.pl. and to my astonishment backuppc is running again. Somehow during > that "fatal" full backup the system installed some updates. So it could be > that system update and full backup don't like each other and do things they > shouldn't. > So backuppc users please do not make (full-) backups and system updates > together. You could lose some time in investigating and not be able to use > backuppc. > Kind regards > Chris Koenig > ___ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
Re: [BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup
On Sun, Aug 1, 2021 at 9:30 AM oetschi.ex...@bluewin.ch wrote: > > > So backuppc users please do not make (full-) backups and system updates > together. You could lose some time in investigating and not be able to use > backuppc. > This report might be more useful if you mentioned 'which' system you are talking about. I'd guess it was some linux distribution, but their packaging and updates work differently. -- Les Mikesell lesmikes...@gmail.com ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
[BackupPC-users] Lost config.pl file during full backup
Hello backuppc, This is a message to warn all users: During a full backup of all my clients the backuppc task went crazy and I could read in the log file that backuppc wanted to start a backup every minute until I stopped the task. After that backuppc did not start anymore. After some days troubleshooting and an advice from google I checked all client config.pl for correct permissions. I saw that there was only a config.pl.old file with the creation date of that last full backup but there was no config.pl file anymore. I copied back the config.pl.old file to config.pl. and to my astonishment backuppc is running again. Somehow during that "fatal" full backup the system installed some updates. So it could be that system update and full backup don't like each other and do things they shouldn't. So backuppc users please do not make (full-) backups and system updates together. You could lose some time in investigating and not be able to use backuppc. Kind regards Chris Koenig ___ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List:https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki:https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
