Admin backups not running

[klasje]

My admin backup/transfer cron is not running, backups are not automatically created.
If I run it manually (run now), it works.

cat /etc/cron.d/directadmin_cron
10 0 * * * root echo 'action=tally&value=all' >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue
20 4 1 * * root echo 'action=reset&value=all' >> /usr/local/directadmin/data/task.queue

I restarted cron, but still no backup is running.

No line appears in directadmin system.log and in error.log

ls -la /home
drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 Mar 5 00:10 tmp


AI suggests to add following line:
* * * * * root /usr/local/directadmin/dataskq

But my other da servers don't have this line neither.
What could be the cause? This stopped working since Directadmin fully deleted itself after an auto update went wrong.

 

[Ohm J]

Check the directadmin errorlogs. dataskq is running under directadmin service.

 

[klasje]

In errortask log I see following:
2026:03:05-10:07:16: int Backup::backup(username=vanessa, dest_path=/mnt/synology_backups/server5/daily_sites/2026-03-05, owner=admin): unable to setOwner('/mnt/synology_backups/server5/daily_sites/2026-03-05/user.admin.vanessa.tar.zst', 'admin', 'vanessa')

 

[Richard G]

unable to setOwner('/mnt/synology_backups/server5/daily_sites/2026-03-05/user.admin.vanessa.tar.zst', 'admin', 'vanessa')

There you go.
DA is not able to set owner of the directory, so it's a permission problem. You might want to check owner and permissions on... what is this you're backing up to, your NAS?

 

[klasje]

If I can run the backup manually from within directadmin, then why can't I run it via the directadmin cron? Under which user is the cron running?
I currently mounted the drive as admin user.

I'm using admin/backup transfer, so I'm backing up entire websites.

Update: I updated to the latest directadmin version and it started working.
So probably just an issue with a subversion.