Hi,
Winston Chan wrote on 27.03.2007 at 20:58:00 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Unable to
connect to BackupPC server error]:
> > > I had been running BackupPC on an Ubuntu computer for several months to
> > > back the computer to a spare hard drive without problem. About the time
> > > I added a new host (Windows XP computer using Samba), I started getting
> > > the following behavior:
> > >
> > > BackupPC backs both hosts properly onto the spare hard drive once or
> > > twice after I reboot the Ubuntu server. Then I get a "Error: Unable to
> > > connect to BackupPC server" error when I attempt to go the web
> > > interface. When I restart BackupPC with "/etc/init.d/backuppc restart",
> > > I get a message "Can't create LOG file /var/lib/backuppc/log/LOG
> > > at /usr/share/backuppc/bin/BackupPC line 1735."
what type of file system is it, what options is it mounted with
(errors=remount-ro for instance)? Could it be that there is an error on the
file system? When this happens, can you touch a file as root anywhere on the
FS before you reboot? Is any process accessing the file system
('sudo fuser -v -m /var/lib/backuppc')? Do the backups complete without error
up to that point? Any possibly related messages in the syslog
(/var/log/messages)? The time of the last action of BackupPC (backup or
nightly run or link ...) might be a good place (in the syslog) to start
looking.
Wasn't that Windoze, where you occasionally have to reboot because something
stops working for no good reason? ;-)
Regards,
Holger
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