[BackupPC-users] failing smb backup

Hi, I have a new backup set up on backuppc that has run fully a few times (without any issues). However, it has stopped backing up and is repeated failing with the following error log: XferLOG file /data/backuppc/pc/backupname/XferLOG.23.z created 2018-11-17 15:00:01 Backup prep: type = full,

Re: [BackupPC-users] failing smb backup

By the looks of it, its hanging ou this file tar:965 Error reading file \243471.SLI : NT_STATUS_IO_TIMEOUT Maybe the file is too large, the disk is damaged, or someething... Em seg, 19 de nov de 2018 às 08:50, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical Physics) escreveu: > Hi, > > > > I have a new ba

[BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

Hi there, One of my users received this recently: "Your PC (COMPUTERNAME.GOES.HERE) has not been successfully backed up for 17851.4 days. Your PC has been correctly backed up 1 times from 0.3 to 17851.4 days ago. PC backups should occur automatically when your PC is connected to the network.

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:55:31 + Jaime Fenton wrote: > "Your PC (COMPUTERNAME.GOES.HERE) has not been successfully backed up > for 17851.4 days. Your PC has been correctly backed up 1 times from > 0.3 to 17851.4 days ago. PC backups should occur automatically when > your PC is connected to the

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

I think 17851 days ago would be 1/1/1970. I’ve never seen this particular error with BackupPC, but it’s not that far-fetched for a non-existent last backup date to default to that. -- Wade Jenkins, IT Administrator Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science University of Tenness

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

Where in the conf file will that be? (yes we had a chuckle at how far back that time/date was). Cheers, Jaime -Original Message- From: B [mailto:lazyvi...@gmx.com] Sent: Monday, November 19, 2018 10:06 AM To: Jaime Fenton Cc: General list for user discussion, questions and support Su

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

I suspect this happens when there is no completed backup, but the first one is currently underway. In 3.x the HOST's backups file is not updated until after a backup completes, but in 4.x an "active" entry is written to the backups file when the backup starts, which causes BackupPC_sendEmail to se

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:48:30 + Jaime Fenton wrote: > Where in the conf file will that be? (yes we had a chuckle at how far > back that time/date was). http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/faq/BackupPC.html look after: $Conf{EMailNotifyOldBackupDays} = 7.0; and following. d° for v4 into: http://b

Re: [BackupPC-users] Curious Message to PC user

I pushed a fix for this issue. Craig On Mon, Nov 19, 2018 at 2:14 PM B wrote: > On Mon, 19 Nov 2018 21:48:30 + > Jaime Fenton wrote: > > > Where in the conf file will that be? (yes we had a chuckle a