About a week ago I set up Bubba to make backups of its files to an external eSATA hard drive.
Few days ago I decided to test how does the backup restore work. It didn't.
Bubba's restore page at web-GUI announced that backups were succesful. There were backups logged in the list for once a day as they were schedualed. There were no files listed in a column that should list files/folders that were backed up.
After the failed backup restore, I did some tests and managed to found a log that is updated during backup process, while files are written to ...(hopefully) somewhere.
/var/log/backup...
The beginning of log file.
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NOTICE 1
. Reading globbing filelist /home/admin/.backup/daily_backup/excludeglob.list
NOTICE 1
. Reading globbing filelist /home/admin/.backup/daily_backup/includeglob.list
NOTICE 1
. Last full backup date: none
NOTICE 1
. Last full backup is too old, forcing full backup
The end of log file.
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--------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
StartTime 1269797770.76 (Sun Mar 28 20:36:10 2010)
EndTime 1269838940.88 (Mon Mar 29 08:02:20 2010)
ElapsedTime 41170.13 (11 hours 26 minutes 10.13 seconds)
SourceFiles 0
SourceFileSize 20866602608 (19.4 GB)
NewFiles 0
NewFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
DeletedFiles 0
ChangedFiles 0
ChangedFileSize 0 (0 bytes)
ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
DeltaEntries 0
RawDeltaSize 20844750448 (19.4 GB)
TotalDestinationSizeChange 15297888906 (14.2 GB)
Errors 0
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I wonder why is there nothing to restore in the external hard drive. Where did the backup file go ???
External hard drive has only three small files: logfile, removefull and cleanup file.
Have I done something wrong
Has anyone else tried backup feature lately ? Did it work
This is scary... no RAID, no working backups ... and just when I thought I could stop fiddling with the harware and put it to use
bubba ver. 1.3.1. External e-SATA hard drive was formatted by Bubba (ext3) before backups were schedualed.