Scheduled Back-ups question

[oblongata]

So I have successfully backed up a few domains via the plesk backup utility within plesk. However after filling out the scheduled backup and hitting the enable button, my Backup creation dates are not changing, indicating to me that they are not being backed up. Why would they not be backing up? Also is there a solid way to find out if the creation date is just not updating, but they are still being backed up by the scheduler?

Understand what im talking about?


Thanks for any help.

 

[jwdick]

I am not sure I understand what the "backup creation date" is that you are talking about. Are you in the control panel and just looking at the file name or are you in the box via ssh and looking at the date on the actual file itself?

 

[oblongata]

well if you go to plesk / domain / "your domain" / Backups
Then make sure you are on ftp repository. Below it lists all my backups that are currently on my ftp. Allthough the creation dates are all from a while back, and I am assuming they should be new creation dates each time they are backed up.
I think I am pretty safe to say, the scheduled back-ups are not working.
Heres a pic of the creation dates.

 

[jwdick]

Yes, it is safe to say that your scheduled backups are not working.

Make sure you have a cron job "backupmng" in the cron tab and that crond dameon is running. The problem I had once with scheduled backups is that crond did not start after a reboot.

 

[oblongata]

Thanks Jack for your help. I have looked within domain/mydomain/crontab/user/
and there are no items within there.

Allthough within server/scheduled tasks/
Under "root"
I am seeing-
*/15 * * * * /usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1

I am not sure how to check if cron dameon is running.

 

[jwdick]

If you have terminal access to your server, log in then type ps aux | grep crond
You should get:

root 32691 0.0 0.0 2472 868 ? Ss Nov20 0:01 crond
root 14246 0.0 0.0 2744 484 pts/0 S+ 19:58 0:00 grep crond

You can also check the cron log files at /var/log to make sure the backupmng is running every 15 minutes.

 

[oblongata]

When I login and run that I get

root     26425  0.0  0.0  1412  620 ?        S    15:37   0:00 crond
root      8007  0.0  0.0  1412  500 pts/0    S    18:15   0:00 grep crond

I also see

 CROND[28541]: (root) CMD (/usr/local/psa/admin/sbin/backupmng >/dev/null 2>&1)

every 15 mins in the log.

Any other ideas to why it isnt backing up ? hum...

 

[jwdick]

I am running out of ideas. There has to be a "conf" file that tells backupmng what is scheduled for when, I will look for this file or maybe someone else out there knows the location of this file already?