cpbackup - no backups - thinks backups are up to date

[santrix]

Hi,

I noticed on one of my servers that the cpbackup process didn't fire off it's usual completion email...

When I looked at the log file in

/usr/local/cpanel/logs/cpbackup/*.log

All it said was:

[cpbackup] Started at Thu Oct 28 01:00:01 2010
[cpbackup] Daily Backup is up to date.
[cpbackup] Completed at Thu Oct 28 01:00:01 2010

The last backup to run was 24hrs earlier. This is a shared hosting server so plenty of changes to user accounts requiring backup! Any ideas why cpbackup would do this?

I just ran /scripts/cpbackup from shell and it did the same again, with the same entries in a new log file.

Help!

[santrix]

Found the answer... apparently cpbackup checks the date/time of the backups directory - in this case /backup/cpbackup/daily

If the access date is the same as the currently run backup then it will skip.

This happened because I had removed some stake backups yesterday, and in doing so updated the directories access times.

touch -d 00:00 /backup/cpbackups/daily

and then re-ran /scripts/cpbackup and it ran fine.

[cPanelJared]

As you observed, cpbackup does check the timestamps on files and directories when deciding whether to back them up or not. If the timestamps are newer than the designated interval (daily, weekly, monthly), then the files and/or directories will not be backed up.

[tuxer]

we run backups on sunday and is retained on the weekly/ directory. Is there any way to run cpbackup cron (set via cpanel - backup option ) even if the time stamp is less than 6 days on weekly/ ?

This is because techs might work on the files in weekly/ causing the dates to get updated.

[Indianets]

we run backups on sunday and is retained on the weekly/ directory. Is there any way to run cpbackup cron (set via cpanel - backup option ) even if the time stamp is less than 6 days on weekly/ ?

This is because techs might work on the files in weekly/ causing the dates to get updated.

Simple ==> Change it to Daily and tick 'Sunday' only

Complex ==> Add a cron just before the cpbackup cron to change the date time of weekly dir.

- Vijay