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Afternoon all,

just moving to xsibackup-dc / pro from the original version 11.2.9 which has been bullet proof.

Got my head round the majority of changes and had worked out how to create the jobs etc, one thing i cant find is the ability to fire job 002 when the first has completed, the old version had an option to start on error etc

e.g
--on-success="backupId->002" \
--on-error="backupId->002" \

Any idea's, didnt want to try that in case it caused an issue

thanks

I've been having a fight with this for a while, version 11 running on two servers will not run cron and did not send emails.
sorted the email problem by deleting the files that are used to connect to the email server (gmail) and generated my own.
Then i couldn't get cron to work so removed all traces of XSI backup and installed the latest version which now seems to install to scratch instead of the original default location (i initially changed it when installing but that didn't seem to work)

The backup works fine manually but will not work with cron even though it is pointing to the same location.

re-installed cron and ran the update against cron to confim it went into the cron tab.

now when it runs i get /scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-Free/jobs/001: line 1: /scratch/XSI/XSIBackup-Free/: Permission denied

I have checked the permissons and added 770 to all and i am running this as root.

any idea's

Strange one this one, my backup that runs on a cron fails with the following error:-

terminate called after throwing an instance of 'Vmacore::SystemException'
  what():  No space left on device

I have checked both the main datastore and also the backup datastore and both enough space, if i run the backup manually xsibackup run job001 then it runs fine, but fails on the cron.

Any idea's

Having an issue sending email, i have removed any reference to pem, rsa etc when changing mail servers, i have ran the test xsibackup --check-smtp --use-smtp=1 etc and i receive this error

Unable to load client certificate private key file
Pem routines:Pem_read_bio:no start line:pem_lib.c:697: expecting any private key
Firewall rule smtpout-25 closed

I have tried with the free version, gave up and then installed the pro version and am having the same error on 3 different VM hosts.

Have installed the pro version on a clean ESXI 6.5 server, have run through the GUI and configured the job, cron etc
When moving through the gui some errors are thrown up (something about eval...it doesnt stay up long enough to read)
The job didn't fire last night and also there is nothing in the log to say there was a problem.

I'm probably missing something here, the earlier versions (Version 9+)seem to just work upon install, change of config file  and a reboot of the server, this version seems to be a bit of a struggle.

I have been really impressed with the software over the years and really commend the guys for making it

rob