Remote backup changed for no reason

[Maarten64]

Hi,

I have a local and remote backup setup from within DirectAdmin, this works fine. Since yesterday though the local backup runs as usual but the remote backup only consist of the 'custom' folder.

I don't get it, the local and remote backup were always a complete duplicated of each other.. Anyone else expirienced this before?

Just to be clear, the local backup has all 3 folder, apache, custom and mysql. The remote only shows custom.

The backup log says all ok! Which makes sense since the local backup is complete. Might be a transfer problem?

 

[acdomains]

Hi,
I am experiencing a similar issue. Sometimes the remote backups appear to be too small (a regular backup for my server is about 15Gb, but sometimes it can be less than 2Gb) My guess is that an error happens durinf the ftp transfer, because the size of the local /backup/<todays-backup> folder is alays normal (as big as it should be). Is there any error handling mechanism for the ftp transfers?

 

[acdomains]

Here is the last backup log from my system (the lines containing the user accounts are removed - marked by *** below) The log doesn't contain any errors, but the size of remote backup is too small - not all the files are transferred.

Performing sanity checks:  Completed
Checking load average:  Completed
Checking free disk space:  Completed
Performing Custom backup
     Archiving /etc/exim.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/exim.cert:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/exim.key:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/exim.pl:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/group:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/gshadow:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/hosts:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/httpd/conf/ips.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/named.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/passwd:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/master.passwd:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/proftpd.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/proftpd.passwd:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/proftpd.vhosts.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/resolv.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/shadow:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/ssh/sshd_config:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/system_filter.exim:  Completed
     Archiving /usr/local/directadmin/conf/mysql.conf:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/mail:  Completed
     Archiving /etc/virtual:  Completed

***[Archiving /home/*:  Completed] - removed by acdomains

     Archiving /usr/lib/apache:  Completed
     Archiving /usr/local:  Completed
     Archiving /usr/local/directadmin/data:  Completed
     Archiving /usr/local/frontpage:  Completed
     Archiving /usr/share/ssl:  Completed
     Archiving /var/log:  Completed
     Archiving /var/mail:  Completed
     Archiving /var/named:  Completed
     Archiving /var/spool/cron:  Completed
     Archiving /var/spool/mail:  Completed
     Archiving /var/spool/virtual:  Completed
     Archiving /var/www:  Completed
Performing DNS backup 
     Stage 1 DNS backup: Completed
     Stage 2 DNS backup: Completed
Performing Apache backup:  Completed
Performing MySQL backup 
     Stage 1 MySQL backup: Completed
     Stage 2 MySQL backup:     Stage 3 MySQL backup:

***[Dumping database *_*:  Completed] - removed by acdomains

Performing backup transfer to 77.221.129.2:  Completed
Performing cleanup operations:  Completed

 

[nobaloney]

Which remote backup? DirectAdmin has two backup programs. Which one is causing this problem?

Jeff

 

[acdomains]

Hi jlasman,

In my case it is: System Backup, Remote transfer method: FTP.

 

[nobaloney]

1) Unless you have an overriding reason to use System Backup, don't. Switch to Admin Reseller Backup. System Backup has no restore ability built in, and requires a knowledgeable system administrator to do a restore. But it can be customized to back up a lot more than just admins, resellers and users, so you may have a reason to use it.

2) The log for System Backup can be found at /usr/local/sysbk/status.log.

3) The configuration files for can be found in /usr/local/sysbk/conf.sysbk and in the /usr/local/sysbk/internals and /usr/local/sysbk/mod directories.

4) For a better understanding of System Backup (SysBK) read /usr/local/sysbk/README.

Jeff