FTP backups failing

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rmday

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I have all resellers set to backup all thier users each night with cron and FTP to another server.
All has been going well untill a few nights ago now one reseller can not overwrite his files on the backup server and the backup fails. It seams that all the settings are the same for each reseller and on the ftp backup server. Can't figure out why one reseller has started to fail. Just get "Error while uploading brian.tar.gz" no other details. If i change password it says wrong login or password....

Edit: Ok I set the account ftp login of another reseller that is working fine and still same deal also set the path to a place where there is no existing file ..still same deal.
I don't think it is the ftp server since all other resellers are working and this reseller does not work with other logins also.

Any thoghts would be helpful. Not sure whats happened!
Thanks
Rmday
 
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I got it fixed. In /home/tmp the reseller's files were stuck and could not be overwritten. I deleted them and now backups are working correctly.

This was in logs.
Write access to the directory containing /home/tmp/taylor/jane.tar.gz is not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.</

Not sure why this happened but hope it helps someone else.
Rmday
 
This happened to me, i deleted the files and it just happens over and over, why is it not deleting from there?



2006:06:21-02:11:07: Unable to write /home/tmp/admin/standing/backup/standingtallaustralia.org/email/passwd
2006:06:21-02:11:07: Unable to write /home/tmp/admin/standing/backup/standingtallaustralia.org/email/quota
2006:06:21-02:11:11: Error deleting /home/tmp/admin/standing.tar.gz : <b>Write access to the directory containing /home/tmp/admin/standing.tar.gz is not allowed for the process's effective uid, or one of the directories in pathname did not allow search (execute) permission.</b><br>
 
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I'm also having problems backing up one DA server backup to another DA server using FTP.

I've tried to use the FTP transfer as admin system backup and as a reseller to manage user backups and no matter what I try the FTP transfer fails.

I've tried the IP address. I've tried the IP address:21. I've tried the domain name.
And i've made sure that there is a working FTP account on the recieving server.

The email I get states "An error occurred during the backup."

Any help would be great thanks

Kev
 
Try a manual ftp from one server to the other; see what kind of error you get.

Jeff
 
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