Posts by klein0104

klein0104 · General matters

My apology for posting to the wrong subforum. Thanks for the note, that explains why I cant find the post in the forum everytime and have to search my history for the actual URL .

I will have a look into the job files at /xsi-dir/jobs. However, I thought that in the tutorials it was written to use vi to edit them and thats the only editor I used. I will have a look again. Thanks for the help

PS: If it is possible, it would be nice if a moderator could move this topic to the XSI Free > General Subforum

klein0104 · General matters

Hi,

thanks for the quick reply. I changed it to

22 14 * * * "/vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010"

But no change in behaviour. I still get the execution in the syslog.log, but no backup is made (I assume that as I cant find any busy process with "ps | grep xsi" and also the files on my backup NFS-share stay untouched.)

2019-05-02T14:22:01Z crond[33592]: crond: USER root pid 4138286 cmd "/vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010"

Regarding the GUI: Isnt the GUI part of the PRO Version? I am using XSI free.

klein0104 · General matters

Hello,

I am struggling to configure a working cron-job for XSI Backup.

I already read and followed the instructions on (c)XSIBackup Classic: troubleshooting the (c)ESXi cron, https://33hops.com/xsibackup-cron-how-to.html and (c)XSIBackup Classic: changes in version 11.0.0 and hopefully did not do anything wrong here.

Currently the xsi-dir/conf/root-crontab file looks like

# This crontab belongs to the root user, thus it starts by root-^M
# Add cron jobs to this file in the classic crond Linux way. ^M
# This is an example of a backup job being run everyday at 2:00 a.m.^M
# change according to your needs and run ./xsibackup --update-cron^M
# min hour day mon dow command^M
# 0 2 * * * "/vmfs/volumes/datastore1/xsi-dir/jobs/001"
58 12 * * * "/vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010" > /vmfs/volumes/backup/log.log 2>log2.log

for debugging purposes. I set the run to happen in about one or two minutes from my current time. As you can see below, the crontab executes the job

[root@VMdev01:/vmfs/volumes/576b9a77-3ab6f9f1-3d0f-6805ca428510/xsi-dir] grep xsi /var/log/syslog.log
2019-04-28T02:00:01Z crond[33592]: crond: USER root pid 3786984 cmd "/vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010" >/dev/null 2>&1
2019-04-29T12:52:01Z crond[33592]: crond: USER root pid 3900512 cmd "/vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010" > /vmfs/volumes/backup/log.log
2019-04-29T12:58:01Z crond[33592]: crond: USER root pid 3901132 cmd "/vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010" > /vmfs/volumes/backup/log.log 2>log2.log
[root@VMdev01:/vmfs/volumes/576b9a77-3ab6f9f1-3d0f-6805ca428510/xsi-dir]

I redirect the output to the volume where the backup is made (NFS-Share) and the file log.log gets created but is empty. I also have a file xsibackup.log at xsi-dir/var/logs, but it is empty aswell

[root@VMdev01:/vmfs/volumes/576b9a77-3ab6f9f1-3d0f-6805ca428510/xsi-dir/var/logs] ls -lisah
total 16
503348612      8 drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         420 Mar  5 12:23 .
453016964      8 drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root         420 Mar  5 12:23 ..
507542916      0 -rw-r--r--    1 root     root           0 Mar  5 12:23 xsibackup.log
[root@VMdev01:/vmfs/volumes/576b9a77-3ab6f9f1-3d0f-6805ca428510/xsi-dir/var/logs]

Running /vmfs/volumes/Areca_Raid10-04_DEV01/xsi-dir/jobs/010 as writte in the cron file directly on the shell works fine. The backup is created on my NFS-Datastore then.

Any ideas where the issue could be? I provide any more information gladly.

Greetings,

Niklas

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#1 Re: General matters » XSI Backup cron job runs but does not create a backup » 2019-05-07 08:22:17

#2 Re: General matters » XSI Backup cron job runs but does not create a backup » 2019-05-02 14:40:42

#3 General matters » XSI Backup cron job runs but does not create a backup » 2019-04-29 13:09:01

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