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From: "Jim Matysek" <matysekj (at mark) usms.org>
To: <coba-e (at mark) bluequartz.org>
Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 8:39 AM
Subject: [coba-e:16021] System backups failing to tar
>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
>
> That directory used to have lots of files in it daily covering each site.
> I suspect the behavior changed right around the time where we had hundreds
> of yum updates associated with the latest kernel.
>
> Looking at my output-cmuexport.log file in the system_backup directory, I
> find the following log with errors reported for each site:
>
> exporting vsite www.hosteddomain.org
> building archive for www.hosteddomain.org
> public archive uncompressed size: 19 MB
> ERROR createTar: Compression not available.
> private archive uncompressed size: 61 MB
> ERROR createTar: Compression not available.
>
> I don't get similar errors when it tar's up the mysql backup. Any ideas?
>
> 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?
>
> -jim
>
>
The normal reason for this is the perl-Compress-Zlib RPM from mail scanner
that is not compatible with the one that the CMU needs.
Possibly there is a solution in the acchives.
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