Sbackup not working

[OnlyTim]

Hey all, I upgraded to 10.04. Was using deja dup, but found it would not back up anymore. I tried using sbackup and it seems to take all the configuration, but when I choose back up now, it shows the process ID but sits idle. The destination drive shows no new files.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!

[R Smit]

Same problem here on laptop and desktop; did not find yet a usefull alternative.

Apparently known bug:

http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index...60&atid=761640

[OnlyTim]

Thanks for the information! Glad to see it's a bug and not me.. I guess it involves daja dup back up as well. I'll wait and see what they come up with as a fix.

Thanks again!

[98cwitr]

i had the same problem. Im willing to bet you can run it from terminal though and it'll work.

[OnlyTim]

Would you know the command for sbackup in terminal? I may try that.
In the mean time,, I unloaded sbackup and installed NSsbackup from synaptic. It worked! Don't ask me how? The files are backed up as tar files. At least I can use it until a fix comes out.

[98cwitr]

sudo sbackupd

further commands and restore commands can be found here:
http://www.linuxcertif.com/man/8/sbackupd/en/
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Ba...pleBackupSuite

[OnlyTim]

Thanks 98.. Appreciate the help!

[recluce]

I should start out by stating that I did not find this solution, but merely tried what somebody else suggested on SourceForge. So here we go:

There is a bug in a configuration file of Simple Backup Config, were a function call is missing a parameter, causing the process you start with the "Backup Now" Button to immediately go Zombie.

Here is the how to fix, step by step:

sudo gedit /usr/share/sbackup/simple-backup-config.py

Find the following function: def on_backupnow_clicked(self, *args):

Once you find it, edit the next line, which looks like this:

pid = os.spawnl( os.P_NOWAIT, self.conf.get("places", "prefix") + "/sbin/sbackupd" )

edit to look like the code box below:

 pid = os.spawnl( os.P_NOWAIT, self.conf.get("places", "prefix") + "/sbin/sbackupd", "/dev/null" )

Don't forget to save..

You are now back in business, the "Backup Now" button will work again.

[unperson]

recluce: Thanks so much for posting this. Your fix worked like a charm. I don't know anything about that function, but I'm guessing from looking at the output of ps that that last argument tells it what to do with STDERR? In any case, you're a life saver.

It sounds like this problem has been present for a while. If the fix is so simple, I really don't understand why the package hasn't been updated.

[recluce]

recluce: Thanks so much for posting this. Your fix worked like a charm. I don't know anything about that function, but I'm guessing from looking at the output of ps that that last argument tells it what to do with STDERR? In any case, you're a life saver.

It sounds like this problem has been present for a while. If the fix is so simple, I really don't understand why the package hasn't been updated.

Thanks...

I can read that function call a little bit, so I am guessing somewhat here. Seems to me that this simply defines the action to take when somebody clicks the button "Backup Now". It goes ahead ahead and spawns a process in the simple backup daemon. The daemon seems to expect an output device for error reports and such and assumes that a console is available. However, there is none and the process goes Zombie since there is no error handling for this situation. Adding the /dev/null parameter gives it a valid output device and it happily directs its text output to nirwana.

I also cannot understand why such a simple error doesn't get fixed posthaste.