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Date:  Fri, 11 Sep 2009 10:46:09 -0500
From:  Chris Gebhardt - VIRTBIZ Internet <cobaltfacts (at mark) virtbiz.com>
Subject:  [coba-e:16022] Re: System backups failing to tar
To:  coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org
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Hi Jim,

Jim Matysek wrote:
> I have always run a system backup every night using the old Nuonce 
> backup package that uses raqbackup.  For the past few weeks it has been 
> failing for each site's backup, but the MySQL backups work as do the 
> backup of additional dirs.  In my system backup directory I only find:
> 
> server.domain.tld.cmu-xml-files.tar.gz
> server.domain.tld.dirs.tar.gz
> server.domain.tld.mysqldump.tar.gz
SNIP
> I don't get similar errors when it tar's up the mysql backup. Any ideas?

Do you have free disk space?   What does "df -h" tell you?

> And by the way, we'll be moving to a BO box sometime (hopefully) soon 
> and will need to export all sites and import to the new box.  Question: 
> With this backup package I can backup individual sites, which creates 
> one large gzipped tar file per site. Yet the system backup utility 
> creates public and private tar files (when it used to work!). For moving 
> to a new server, should I use the system backup? Is there any use to the 
> vsite backup utility, or is that just wasted space and cycles?

Good 'ol raqbackup.sh works just great.

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Chris Gebhardt
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