[Box Backup] Re: client connection error SOLVED

[boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk]

Chris, just wanted to let you know that this morning's snapshot backup
(initiated via cron) ran successfully.

Please let me know if there's anything else you need from me, otherwise it
looks like the situation has been solved. I'll let you know if I encounter
similar problems on my other Debian clients.

Feel free to contact me when you're ready to test on a Debian system and
I'll set you up.

Again, thank you for all of your help.


Sean


> Hey Chris,
>
>> I don't know either. It's a shame that we can't reproduce it. Please keep
>> an eye on your backups and run a compare command regularly, and let me
know if it appears to stop backing up for any reason.
>>
>> Do you have logs from the early runs which should have backed things up
but didn't?
>>
>
> I sure do have those client logs. They will be at the end of the e-mail
and a quick note.
>
>> You don't get emails for backup-start and backup-finish by default,
only for errors.
>>
>> If you run the command shown in those log lines (for a failure), do you
get an email as expected? If not, what output do you get and what's in
your mail server logs?
>
> If I run the command manually, I do get an error e-mail. I see in the
local server's logs (backup mail server, normally dormant) that it sent
me two error messages regarding the backup errors. One from this morning
and one from a few minutes ago when I ran the script manually.
>
>
> Thanks!
>
> Sean
>
> ---------------------------
>
> Apr 28 07:26:27 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: NOTICE: Starting
daemon, version 0.11rc2, config: /etc/box/bbackupd.conf
> Apr 28 07:32:34 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: NOTICE: Beginning scan
of local files
> Apr 28 07:32:34 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: WARNING: Exception
thrown: ConnectionException(Conn_SocketConnectError) at S
> ocketStream.cpp(223)
> Apr 28 07:32:34 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: NOTICE: About to notify
administrator about event backup-error, running scri
> pt '/etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysadmin.sh backup-error'
> Apr 28 07:32:45 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: NOTICE: File
statistics: total file size uploaded 0, bytes already on server
>  0, encoded size 0
> Apr 28 07:51:28 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: NOTICE: Beginning scan
of local files
> Apr 28 07:51:28 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: WARNING: Exception
thrown: ConnectionException(Conn_SocketConnectError) at S
> ocketStream.cpp(223)
> Apr 28 07:51:28 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: WARNING: Suppressing
duplicate notification about backup-error
> Apr 28 07:51:38 ns2 Box Backup (bbackupd)[5131]: NOTICE: File
statistics: total file size uploaded 0, bytes already on server
>  0, encoded size 0
> [IT DID NOT AUTOMATICALLY RUN THE NOTIFYSYSADMIN.SH SCRIPT FROM THIS
POINT ON] - sorry for the caps, wanted to make a delineation from logs
and the note.
>
> Repeated about 10 times, for 10 or so failed backup attempts. No
associated logs on the bbstored server, as if the client didn't even
make a connection attempt.



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Sean Van Couwenberghe
Vanco Computing
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(707) 578-5802