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Arindrew

Member

Registered: 2018-06-29

Posts: 3

Cron failing to install even thought reports it installed successfully

Fresh install of XSIBackup 11.0.1 on a new host. Ran test backup job successfully, then tried to install cron and I get the following. It reports that it installed correctly, but there is no "xsibackup-cron" file created in the xsi-dir directory. ESXi version is 6.5.

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#  (c) XSIBACKUP-PRO 11.0.1 | Backup for (c) VMWARE ESXi Hypervisor by 33hops.com
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NOTICE: (c) XSIBackup kills any user launched jobs, make sure you don't overlap manual jobs
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XSIBackup PID:            68831                             ESXi.com
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The root user crontab has been successfully installed
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Killed
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes/5ab92c93-63fe1f90-e517-d094664b32fe/xsi-dir] ls -lah
total 2816
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 13 19:06 .
drwxr-xr-t    1 root     root       76.0K Jul 12 21:22 ..
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root           0 Jul 13 19:04 .ERR-dfb30482adad65e9454ad995280a27f238a60649
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        4.5K Jul 12 21:23 EULA
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root        4.2K Jul 12 21:22 README.txt
drwx------    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 12 21:22 bin
drwxrwxrwx    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 13 17:41 conf
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          48 Jul 13 18:19 license.key
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root          48 Jul 13 15:20 request.key
drwx------    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 12 21:22 src
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root       72.0K Jul 12 21:22 var
-rwx------    1 root     root      144.8K Jul 12 21:22 xsibackup
-rw-------    1 root     root        1.6K Jul 12 21:22 xsibackup_id_rsa
-rw-r--r--    1 root     root         422 Jul 12 21:22 xsibackup_id_rsa.pub
[root@ESXi:/vmfs/volumes/5ab92c93-63fe1f90-e517-d094664b32fe/xsi-dir]

backamunga

Member

Registered: 2018-07-03

Posts: 6

Re: Cron failing to install even thought reports it installed successfully

I have the same experience.  I do see conf/root-crontab; those entries get copied to ESXi's crontab (/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root) but, I believe, only on boot and when updating cron jobs in the ncurses UI.

Have you tried creating jobs in the ncurses UI and seeing if they run?  Works for me.

I do appreciate the xsibackup documentation but sometimes I wonder if what I'm reading applies to the current version.  I'd encourage the author(s) to consider versioning the documentation.  I know a lot of projects use [url]https://readthedocs.org/[/url] but I know you guys are more than capable of doing/hosting it yourself.

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,072

Re: Cron failing to install even thought reports it installed successfully

[b]Arindrew[/b], there's no [b]xsibackup-cron[/b] file any more. Please, read this post:

[url=https://33hops.com/xsibackup-free-11-things-that-have-changed.html](c)XSIBackup Classic: changes in version 11.0.0[/url]

And always read the change log when updating to a new version.

[url]https://33hops.com/xsibackup-change-log.html[/url]

XSIBackup project almost always keeps previous arguments and way of working, when some significant change is done, we publish especific posts.

[b]backamunga[/b], thank you for helping and also for your feedback. You are right, there's always a better way to do things, we'll study improvements as the project grows and we can dedicate more time to it.