Hunh - so the word is be patient and see if it wakes up and does what its suppose to? I don't see any kind of immediate feedback beyond that okay message. New territory, asking questions you understand. I mean when I hit the GO button I want it to go - thats why the cron script. What command is executed when the start backup button is pushed on the CGI interface? Effectively thats all I want it to do. At its most simple, I want cron to push that button at certain times of the day. I don't mean to belabor this point but it seems rather simple from where I stand and tho BackupPC_serverMesg may be the right command to execute, nothings happening and it should. Nothing shows up in the cgi interface, nothing shows up in the logs.
I guess another way to ask it is - when the Start Full/Incr Backup button is pushed, which binaries are executed and in what order? Heck I can fire up a script to execute them all in order if thats all we're talking about. Thanks Scott _______________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 206 412 3055 > ----- Original Message ----- > Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] using cron to schedule backups > From: Les Mikesell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Scott Gamble" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: "[email protected]" <[email protected]> > Date: 08-24-2005 11:41 am > > > On Wed, 2005-08-24 at 13:21, Scott Gamble wrote: > > On a related note, this is what I see when i execute the following > > > > ark ~ # sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg backup > > 10.0.0.21 mail backuppc 1 > > Got reply: ok: requested backup of mail > > > > But nothing happens. I also tried the standard > > ark ~ #ark ~ # sudo -u backuppc /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC_serverMesg > > backup all > > Got reply: ok > > ark ~ # > > > > as in the documentation but nothing happens. I realize I'm departing from > > the well beaten path a little bit here but don't feel like I'm THAT far off. > > I just want Cron to start the ball rolling is all. > > The servermsg just schedules the backup like the web interface would. > There are constraints within the server configuration to control the > number of concurrent runs and when backuppc_nightly is running, no > backups are started. If the web status display shows commands > pending, they should be run the next time the server wakes up and > conditions allow the actions. > > -- > Les Mikesell > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
