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I ran ./xsibackup --update-cron

I get "nothing to add to the root crontab"

Which makes sense to me because I never had a xsibackup-cron file created whereby I could put a cron job.

I could attempt to create a xsibackup-cron file from scratch but the help says "You can find detailed instructions in the sample xsibackup-cron file."

So without these detailed instructions I probably will not create it correctly.

Are we expected to run ./xsibackup --update-cron without a xsibackup-cron file in the same folder? Where does ./xsibackup --update-cron look for jobs to add to the crontab?

Thanks.

First off, thank you for replying so promptly.

Second while waiting for a reply I deleted the backups and attempted them again.

For whatever reason this time it worked and the VM loads on the backup server. Yay!!!

I ran the exact same command each time.

The terminal window reported many errors (even the second time), and at the conclusion it says.

"Errors detected in backup, check logs"

the ./xsi-dir/var/log/xsibackup.log on both the source and destination servers never get any entries and are 0kb in size.

Are the actual logs stored in a different place?  Which log should get populated the source or destination server? or both?

I would just like to see what is being reported and perhaps I can glean more information for future backups.

Thank you again for getting back to me, I am almost certain I will have more questions as I test on a few other VMs.