[Box Backup] Some weirdness with bbackupctl

[Marco Bartholomew]

OK, my bad -- somehow I had two instances of the backup daemon running. 
  I killed them both, restarted the daemon, and all is well now.

Thanks much

Marco


Ben Summers wrote:

> 
> On 6 Dec 2004, at 17:20, Marco Bartholomew wrote:
> 
>> I was having some trouble with a machine running the client daemon.  
>> It had been running properly, but for some reason, my nightly cron job 
>> (bbackupctl -q sync) quit working.  The cron log showed the job 
>> running, and I had deliberately uploaded some files to one of the 
>> backed-up directories to test, but the log on the server side showed 
>> no attempt at a login by the client.
>>
>> I discovered that issuing the command directly wasn't working either, 
>> unless I issued it twice in succession.
>>
> 
> It's difficult to see what's happening without seeing logs for the 
> client and server, as well as the client configuration. Was the daemon 
> doing anything? Using any processor time?
> 
> I can think of two possible reasons why this might be:
> 
> 1) You've got the client in lazy mode, and the files you created weren't 
> old enough to be uploaded by the sync. Since nothing was changed, 
> bbackupd didn't connect to the server.
> 
> 2) You added a new BackupLocation, but forgot to restart bbackupd. When 
> you restarted it, the changes took effect. The configuration file is not 
> reloaded on each sync.
> 
> I could be wrong though, but it's difficult to tell from your description.
> 
> I would be interested to know if anyone else had similar issues.
> 
> Ben
>