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lievenmoors

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Registered: 2018-11-21

Posts: 28

xsibackup doesn't cleanup tmp folder

I have the problem that that the xsibackup tmp folder is not being cleaned up
correctly after a backup.

This is my job command:

/vmfs/volumes/xxx/xsi/xsibackup \
--backup \
"VMs(VM1, VM2, VM3)" \
"root@my_ip:22:/srv/xsibackup_repo/" \
--remote-path=/my_home/xsi/xsibackup \
--rotate=25 \
--compression=yes \
--mail-to=backups@jes.be \
>> /vmfs/volumes/xxx/xsi/var/log/xsibackup.log 2>&1

Xsibackup is installed in the /scratch directory. Xsibackup is running as root.
When the job has finished, it leaves stuff in the /scratch/xsi/tmp directory,
and after a while the backups fail because it is full.

I emptied the directory three days ago, and now it looks like this:

# ls -ld /scratch/xsi/tmp/*
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root             8 Apr 28 10:15 /scratch/xsi/tmp/2923915
drwxr-xr-x    1 root     root             8 Apr 29 10:14 /scratch/xsi/tmp/2981378

du -sh /scratch/xsi/tmp/*
322.8M  /scratch/xsi/tmp/2923915
325.1M  /scratch/xsi/tmp/2981378

This is the from the log file. It shows the end of the backup that left behind
the folder 2923915

Backup end date: 2020-04-28 11:36:43
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Time taken:     4849 sec.
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Total time:    45274 sec.
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Full file speed:                                                                            35.06 mb/s
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Real data speed:                                                                            21.10 mb/s
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Item backup completed
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Differential blocks were added to the .blocklog database
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Data processing completed successfully
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Could not find SMTP -1, falling back to SMTP 1
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Sending e-mail to my_email...
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E-mail was sent          OK
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--rotate option was detected, retrieving backups to prune...
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Nothing to prune as per the rotation figure
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Removed <tmp> dir        OK
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Unlocked backup          OK
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SSH session was closed   OK
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Removed PID              OK

Thanks for your help,

Greetings,

lieven

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,072

Re: xsibackup doesn't cleanup tmp folder

If [b](c)XSIBackup-DC[/b] is installed in the [b]/scratchXSI/XSIBackup-DC[/b] default location, why does your job point to some xsibackup binary in a different place:

/vmfs/volumes/xxx/xsi/xsibackup

The job also points to some xsibackup.log file in a different place.

>> /vmfs/volumes/xxx/xsi/var/log/xsibackup.log 2>&1

lievenmoors

Member

Registered: 2018-11-21

Posts: 28

Re: xsibackup doesn't cleanup tmp folder

Well, it's not a different place, but another name for the same place.
The xxx was used to hide the scratch volume id.

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,072

Re: xsibackup doesn't cleanup tmp folder

This bug will be solved in next version 1.3.0.0, sorry about the inconvenience.

kd.gundermann

Member

Registered: 2018-02-27

Posts: 34

Re: xsibackup doesn't cleanup tmp folder

Using XSIBackup-DC 1.5.1.3 I'm still having several folders in the tmp dir.
Some of them contain a .blocklog file, some of them are empty.

admin

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Registered: 2017-04-21

Posts: 2,072

Re: xsibackup doesn't cleanup tmp folder

We fixed that issue long ago, in any case please update to the latest release, 1.5.1.5 at the time to write these words.
tmp/ cleanup works well as per our tests, nonetheless when an error is raised it might not be removed, as it may contain important clues on the issue.