Hi there,
On Tue, 17 Jan 2023, Laurence Hurst wrote:
Yes, I know I'm very late to the v4 party...
Just upgraded my version 3 to 4 (3 days into the process) and all seems
to be working again but I cannot find 2 things I used regularly in the
v3 UI in the v4 one:
Quite a few years ago when I upgraded 3 to 4 I had similar problems.
1. I cannot find the XferLogs in the UI, which I could in v3?
On the Host Summary page
.../BackupPC_Admin?action=summary
click on a host. That takes you to the host summary page
.../BackupPC_Admin?host=<hostname>
There are three tables on that page, you may need to scroll vertically
to reach them. (I've always thought it would be better if there were
only one table on the page, and you had to scroll horizontally to see
the columns you probably only need infrequently, but I digress.) The
first table is "Backup Summary", the second is "Xfer Error Summary",
the third is "File Size/Count Reuse Summary".
The second table is the one you want. Here's a cut-n-paste of the
first two lines of that table in one of my backup pages:
Backup# Type View #Xfer errs #bad files #bad share #tar errs
1087 incr XferLOG, Errors 0 0 0 0
The third colum contains two links, for "XferLOG" and "Errors".
In my installation if I click the "XferLOG" link I get to
.../BackupPC_Admin?action=view&type=XferLOG&num=1087&host=<hostname>
and the log is rendered on the screen. The first line on the screen is
"File /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<hostname>/XferLOG.1087.z"
[Aside] If I log in as the 'backuppc' user and give the command
$ /usr/local/BackupPC/bin/BackupPC_zcat /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<hostname>/XferLOG.1087.z
2>&1 | head
TOPDIR= []
INSTALLDIR=[]
CONFDIR= []
USING FHS:
TOPDIR= [/var/lib/BackupPC]
INSTALLDIR=[/usr/local/BackupPC]
CONFDIR= [/etc/BackupPC]
Attempting to read configuration
$host=[]
XferLOG file /var/lib/BackupPC/pc/<hostname>/XferLOG.1087.z created 2023-01-17
01:02:38
I see what I expect to see. It's a long time since I've looked at any
of those, longer than it should have been, so thank you for the prompt.
[/Aside]
2. I also don't seem to have any storage graphs in the UI - these were
working in v3, so I'm not sure what I've done to lose/break these?
IIRC I had the same problem. The list didn't help much so I just blew
away the V4 installation and reinstalled from scratch. Got graphs now.
3. I cannot edit the configurations through the v4 UI, which I could
through v3 - again, I'm not sure what I've broken here?
Sorry, can't help. Wherever possible I avoid editing a configuration
through a Web UI. My single experience of using the UI for BackupPC
was was that the V3 UI deleted all the comments in the file and I had
to restore from a backup... since then I've never used the UI to edit.
I'm sure it's something simple I've overlooked but BackupPC has a _lot_
of options, so if anyone knows the answer off the top of their head I
would really appreciate the timesaver having already spent 3 days buried
in BackupPC!
Been there, got the t-shirt. I feel your pain.
--
73,
Ged.
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