Backup failing in Webmin - Please help!!

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#1 Sat, 01/07/2012 - 08:31
chiefguerra

Backup failing in Webmin - Please help!!

Hello fellow users..

I need some help as I'm getting used to using webmin/virtualmin's added functionality, but I'm running into issues while trying to backup my web directories and config file and getting some errors. I tried CHMOD the folder where trying to backing up to and no luck. plz help as I'm trying to setup a successful backup.

In virtualmin trying to backup in backup virtual server (full)

to /mnt/backup/sitebackup failed :

TAR failed : sh: /mnt/backup/sitebackup: Is a directory tar: -: Cannot write: Broken pipe tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

In Webmin file system backup :

Performing backup of /var/www to /mnt/backup/sitebackup ..

tar: /mnt/backup/sitebackup: Cannot read: Bad file descriptor tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Thanks, Ben

Sat, 01/07/2012 - 14:06
andreychek

Howdy,

What output do you receive if you run these commands:

ls -l /mnt/backup/sitebackup
touch /mnt/backup/sitebackup/test.txt
echo foo > /mnt/backup/sitebackup/test.txt
Sat, 01/07/2012 - 17:46
chiefguerra

1st: drwxr-xr-x 7 nobody 1000 65536 Jan 3 01:54 themotorpool -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody 1000 37069307 Jan 6 14:06 themotorpool.org.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody 1000 270 Jan 6 14:06 themotorpool.org.tar.gz.info -rw------- 1 nobody 1000 17964 Jan 6 14:06 virtualmin.tar.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 nobody 1000 170 Jan 6 14:06 virtualmin.tar.gz.info

2nd: nothing

3rd: nothing

Sat, 01/07/2012 - 20:42 (Reply to #3)
chiefguerra

I need some help..anyone?

Mon, 01/09/2012 - 16:06 (Reply to #4)
chiefguerra

I really need some to try and get this resolved..

Thanks..

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