Backup manager does not work properly

[RenéO]

Hi,

i try to explain my problem here, please be patient with me.

I am running a Ubuntu 11.10 server with Plesk. I managed to set a backup job at 3 AM every day. This has been working great so far. However Plesk does a second backup at 8 AM every day. I dont know why that happens, there ist only one setting for 3AM.

I thought, some cron jobs are still running but i dont know how to remove them. Please help me because we need the server running at 8 AM.

Thanks!

 

[abdi]

The backup cron is in:

/etc/cron.d/plesk-backup-manager

So you can view the contents of that file and make sure you have only 1 line and only that you set at 3.

 

[RenéO]

Thanks, i found the file and opened it.

I have exactly one line in there:

12,27,42,57 * * * * root [ -x /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng ] && /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1

What do i have to change?

 

[abdi]

This should run every day at 3 AM.

0 3 * * * root [ -x /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng ] && /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1

Try replacing it with that ...

 

[RenéO]

Thanks, i replaced the line with yours.

After some days i recognize, i didnt work out so far. The backup manager still sets two backups, however now they are created at 03:00 AM AND 03:13AM at the same day.

Your line may have a simple error? I would appreciate an answer, thanks.

 

[abdi]

Well, that is we-ired. Hey try this (to troubleshoot), just disable that line ie put a hash infront of it

##0 3 * * * root [ -x /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng ] && /opt/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1

And wait and see if any backups are taken, if they are, then there is another script backing-up your files on-top of this one, if they don't, let us know ..

 

[RenéO]

Done. I will have a look at the backups, and post an reply soon.

Thank you for your help, i really appreciate it.

 

[abdi]

Sure, no problem!

 

[RenéO]

Hi,

i tried youre suggestion. Since Aug 17. no backups where executed. So the problem must be in the cron line?

Any help would be good.

 

[RenéO]

Problem not solved so far, does anyone have some suggestions?

 

[Alexander Bechtold]

Hy,

have same problem. Migrate from 10.4 to 11.09 and in history, they make 1 year backup automaticaly and after migration, they make nothing. So i delete all jobs (they worked one year) and put them back new, no backup. I start manually backup, they make it on the server (i chose to ftp) and thats all, no cron backup daily.

So we have suse and they don`t be at /etc/cron.d/plesk-backup-manager, so we don`t have plesk-backup-manager. I think there is some problems in plesk.

 

[RenéO]

I found something interesting, there are two different backup manager settings on the control panel.

The first one can be found at the "Website & Domains" sections, the second one in the "Server" section. Apparently these setting aren't the same. I now deactivatet one of these setting, and looking forward a solution.

I don't know if this is a problem with plesk or with my cron job settings, anyways. If this works, i will post results soon.

And again, thank you all very much for helping me.

 

[Alexander Bechtold]

Hm, good idea, because the Domain section is for customers and in server, you have global.....look if it will work, because, didn`t no one have a solution for backup?

 

[RenéO]

Hm, good idea, because the Domain section is for customers and in server, you have global.....look if it will work, because, didn`t no one have a solution for backup?

I took a look at the backups for a while now and i think my problem is solved.

I assume the backupmanager on the server & website section are seperated managers. I now have just one backup a day, yee!

Thank you all for your help!