[Box Backup] bbackupd false notification

[kiru]

Chris Wilson wrote:
> Hi Kiru,
> 
> On Thu, 13 Mar 2008, kiru wrote:
> 
>> I'm running the bbackupd daemon with the -V argument, and I see only 
>> the following messages in the syslog:
>>
>> ---
>> Box Backup (bbackupd)[28220]: NOTICE: Finished scan of local files
>> Box Backup (bbackupd)[28220]: NOTICE: About to notify administrator 
>> about event backup-finish, running script 
>> '/etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysadmin.sh backup-finish'
>> Box Backup (bbackupd)[28220]: NOTICE: File statistics: total file size 
>> uploaded 4192095, bytes already on server 0, encoded size 2801312
>> ---
>>
>> but I receive messages in every half hour with the following subject: 
>> "BACKUP PROBLEM on host mikroweb.hu (unknown)".
>>
>> Why is this? How can I eliminate this?
> 
> Thanks for the concise and accurate description!
> 
> I believe that you have upgraded from 0.10 and you have not reconfigured 
> Box Backup by running bbackupd-config. The old notify script is still in 
> place in /etc/box/bbackupd/NotifySysadmin.sh and does not know anything 
> about the backup-finish event, so it reports an unknown error.
> 
> The easiest way to fix it is to edit the NotifySysadmin script by hand, 
> find the line that starts with "else", and add these three lines before it:
> 
> elif [ "\$1" = backup-start -o "\$1" = backup-finish ]; then
>         # do nothing by default
>         true
> 
> Please let me know if that helps and I'll add it to the Upgrading 
> section of the Wiki (did you read that by the way?)
> 
> Cheers, Chris.

Thank you for your response.
I included the following sentence in the bash file:
---
elif [ $1 = backup-start -o $1 = backup-finish ]
then
         exit
else
---

This helps, and now bbackupd working withouth problems. (You can attach it in the wiki ;-))



regards,
kiru