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  1. #1
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    Unhappy Webmin Backup errors

    Hello,

    I've been asked by my boss to backup our Ubuntu Webserver to a NASbox on site via FTP and i just can't get it to work, not even on my Office PC which i have also tried.

    I installed Filezilla Server on my office PC and set everything right, username, password, added read and write permissions to the shared folder which is on my desktop.

    And i get this error;

    Performing backup of /home/website/site/sqlbackup to 127.0.0.1:/ ..

    FTP login failed : PASS ********* failed : Login incorrect.

    tar (child): admin@127.0.0.1\:/: Cannot open: Operation not permitted
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now


    The password is write i just get it

    I want to backup to the NAS box really but i wanted to see if i could get it to backup to my PC first thinking if it was something on the NAS box.

    The error i get on the NASbox is;

    Performing backup of /home/website/site/sqlbackup to 10.xxx.xxx.xxx:/backup/SiteBackup/ ..

    FTP write failed : STOR /backup/SiteBackup/ failed : /backup/SiteBackup/: No such file or directory

    tar (child): admin@10.xxx.xxx.xxx\:/backup/SiteBackup/: Cannot write: Operation not permitted
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    .. backup failed!


    Thanks
    James
    Last edited by James1984; December 4th, 2012 at 12:05 PM.

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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Also the Operating system version is Linux 12.04.1 and the webmin is version 1.600

    Thanks
    James

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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Does anyone have any ideas??

    I cant even backup to the local server , i get this error trying to do it locally;

    Performing backup of /home/website/site/sqlbackup to /home/hwebsite/backup ..

    tar: Removing leading `/' from member names
    tar (child): /home/website/backup: Cannot open: Is a directory
    tar (child): Error is not recoverable: exiting now
    .. backup failed!


    James

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    Exclamation Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Can anyone at least tell home to map a drive of the server files on a windows Operating system so i can make a schedule backup of the files using our backup software.

    So i don't have to copy and paste from Filezilla FTP Client to the backup NASbox manually.

    James

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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Anyone at all?????

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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Heeellllooooo ,

    Can anyone help me at all with this, i would like to be able to use this backup feature without having to do copy and paste it manually every time through Filezilla Client

    Thanks
    James

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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Ok, this thread is kinda convoluted...Can you clearly explain what exactly you are trying to accomplish?


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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    I want to use the webmin backup schedule to backup our ubuntu server website to a network storage drive but it won't do it and won't even do it locally.

    Errors are shown above

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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Sounds like you are using tar incorrectly.

    If you want to backup the whole directory, you'd need to run tar like this:

    Code:
    tar /path/to/file.tar.gz --directory=/var/www somefolder
    http://unixhelp.ed.ac.uk/CGI/man-cgi?tar
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  10. #10
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    Re: Webmin Backup errors

    Where do i run this code please.

    Do i put this in the Extra Command line Parameters in the file system Backup feature?

    Thanks
    James

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