[Babase] Fwd: Cron <root@papio> /usr/local/sbin/rsync_backup --single-link --rkey /etc/rsync.d/papio_pull_key --pull backup-server1 /etc/rsync.d/backup-server1.secrets --exclude-here '/var/lib/mlocate/*' / /boot /var

Karl O. Pinc kop at meme.com
Thu Nov 12 10:33:14 EST 2009


On 11/12/2009 08:11:24 AM, Lacey Maryott Roerish wrote:
> Susan,
> 
>    is the internet still not working at your house? It seems that
> again last
> night the backup server was unable to talk to papio?

Nah, dumbo is ok.  This message is because I was messing about
on papio last night and broke it.  It's fixed now.

This particular message is a failure of papio to backup dumbo.
It is not easy to tell the difference, I look for the 
'--pull backup-server1' in in the command line.  This says
that, because the message is from papio so the program is running
on papio, data is being pulled from backup-server1.

> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: Cron Daemon <root at papio.biology.duke.edu>
> Date: Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 11:49 PM
> Subject: Cron <root at papio> /usr/local/sbin/rsync_backup --single-link
> --rkey
> /etc/rsync.d/papio_pull_key --pull backup-server1

                               ^^ here

Mostly you don't need to worry about which backup is failing,
the backup of papio or the backup of dumbo,
because if either fails there's a problem and you probably
want to contact me anyway.

> /etc/rsync.d/backup-server1.secrets --exclude-here
> '/var/lib/mlocate/*' /
> /boot /var
> To: papiobackupadmin at papio.biology.duke.edu
> 
> 
> rsync_backup[360]: /srv/backups/backup-server1: not mounted: rsync
> aborted
> 

The specific error message above is saying that the disk used to
store backups of dumbo (backup-server1) is not there,
so it did not do a backup.  Not that you care.

FWIW last night I (eventually) deleted about 6.5G of a copy
of the postrges db from 2008 I had used during
a postgres upgrade.


Karl <kop at meme.com>
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                 -- Robert A. Heinlein




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