Question #82020 on NSsbackup changed: https://answers.edge.launchpad.net/nssbackup/+question/82020
Status: Needs information => Open Guus Bonnema gave more information on the question: Hi Oumar, I suspect something else is wrong. I entered a completely different [dirconfig] and got the same result. The following files are created on the remote site: ncftp ...alhost.localdomain.ful > ls -l -rw-r--r-- support support 8 Sep 23 05:22 excludes -rw-r--r-- support support 106 Sep 23 05:23 excludes.list -rw-r--r-- support support 130 Sep 23 05:23 excludes.list.tmp -rw-r--r-- support support 0 Sep 23 05:23 files.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- support support 6 Sep 23 05:22 format -rw-r--r-- support support 104 Sep 23 05:23 includes.list -rw-r--r-- support support 104 Sep 23 05:23 includes.list.tmp -rw-r--r-- support support 0 Sep 23 05:22 packages As you can see the files.tar.gz is empty. The filespec used was: ncftp ...alhost.localdomain.ful > cat includes.list /home/abonnema/Documents/00-private /work/thuis /ddisk/backup/00-keyfiles /ddisk/backup/00-protected-01 ncftp ...alhost.localdomain.ful > cat excludes.list /sys/* /tmp/* /proc/* /dev/* /home/abonnema/.local/share/nssbackup/mountdir/ftp_abonn...@ftp.ibackup.com The relevant portion of the log is: 2009-09-23 05:24:48,593 - INFO - BackupManager.py:makeBackup(310) - Starting snapshot 2009-09-23_05.24.46.270400.localhost.localdomain.ful 2009-09-23 05:24:48,594 - INFO - BackupManager.py:makeBackup(323) - Setting packages File 2009-09-23 05:24:48,623 - INFO - BackupManager.py:makeBackup(333) - Setting Excludes File 2009-09-23 05:24:48,625 - INFO - BackupManager.py:makeBackup(341) - Setting compression format 2009-09-23 05:24:48,626 - INFO - BackupManager.py:makeBackup(346) - Setting split size 2009-09-23 05:25:47,643 - INFO - tar.py:makeTarFullBackup(344) - Launching TAR to make a Full backup 2009-09-23 05:27:05,239 - ERROR - nssbackupd.py:__onError(226) - Given copy destination '/home/abonnema/.local/share/nssbackup/mountdir/ftp_abonn...@ftp.ibackup.com/2009-09-23_05.24.46.270400.localhost.localdomain.ful' does not exist. 2009-09-23 05:27:05,290 - ERROR - nssbackupd.py:__onError(227) - Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/nssbackupd.py", line 217, in run self.__bm.makeBackup() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/managers/BackupManager.py", line 364, in makeBackup self.__actualSnapshot.commit() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/util/Snapshot.py", line 344, in commit self.__makebackup() File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/util/Snapshot.py", line 538, in __makebackup TAR.makeTarFullBackup(self) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/util/tar.py", line 372, in makeTarFullBackup Util.nssb_copy( tmp_snarfile, snarfile ) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/util/__init__.py", line 113, in nssb_copy prep_src, prep_dst = _prepare_nssb_copy(src, dst) File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/nssbackup/util/__init__.py", line 160, in _prepare_nssb_copy raise IOError("Given copy destination '%s' does not exist." % _dst_dir) IOError: Given copy destination '/home/abonnema/.local/share/nssbackup/mountdir/ftp_abonn...@ftp.ibackup.com/2009-09-23_05.24.46.270400.localhost.localdomain.ful' does not exist. 2009-09-23 05:27:05,304 - INFO - BackupManager.py:__unsetlockfile(565) - Session of backup is finished (/home/abonnema/.local/share/nssbackup/nssbackup.lock is removed) The error I see is weird, because the files are stored, it's just that files.tar.gz is empty. Also I got a bunch of the following errors for files already at the remote site: 2009-09-23 05:24:46,270 - WARNING - SnapshotManager.py:_read_snps_from_disk_allformats(174) - Got a non valid snapshot 'signature' due to name convention : Name of Snapshot not valid : False So, that's it. Hope you can make heads or tail of it. Guus. You received this question notification because you are a member of NSsbackup team, which is an answer contact for NSsbackup. _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team Post to : nssbackup-team@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~nssbackup-team More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp