Winston Chan wrote:
>>> 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."
>> Perhaps the /var/lib file system is full?
>>
>> If not, does the backuppc user have permissions to write in
>> /var/lib/backuppc/log?
>>
>> Craig
>
> I hadn't thought about the file system being full. After checking just
> now, this is not the answer. /var/lib has 48G available on my main hard
> drive. /var/lib/backuppc, to which the spare hard drive is mounted, has
> 59G available.
>
> The directory /var/lib/backuppc/log is owned by backuppc and is in the
> backuppc group. Its permission is 750. All files in it also are owned by
> backuppc and are in the backuppc group. They all have 640 permission.
There's also a possibility of running out of inodes. Does
'df -i' look reasonable?
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Les Mikesell
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