[TheHijacker]

1.0.6 hasn't been release yet. Fixed version I mean.

[tomsowerby]

Has anyone had any luck getting the cron job working with the v1.0.7 etrayz firmware?
Mine still doesn't seem to be running :S

[TheHijacker]

Running this as cronjob should work now just fine:

5 0 * * * /usr/bin/rdiff-backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

[tomsowerby]

TheHijacker, on 20 September 2010 - 16:31, said:

Running this as cronjob should work now just fine:

5 0 * * * /usr/bin/rdiff-backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

Sorry Hijacker, that still doesn't seem to be doing anything. Yet it runs fine when running it manually.
Are there any logs where I can check what's going on with rdiff and the cron job?

[TheHijacker]

First of all check if cron is even running:

/etc/init.d/cron status

You should see something like this cron (pid 999) is running....

If it's not running then start it:

/etc/init.d/cron start

Also give me the output of this command:

crontab -l

[vpeter]

What about

ls -al /usr/bin/rdiff-backup.sh

[epox]

hi HJ

get this

[3:~]$ crontab -l
no crontab for root
[4:~]$

any help

[TheHijacker]

Well. You have no jobs for it then.

Edit crontab file with:

crontab -e

Paste this line inside:

5 0 * * * /usr/bin/rdiff-backup.sh >/dev/null 2>&1

And save it.

Then type crontab -l again to see if he added it inside.

[epox]

ok 1.07
python

everything seems to be working

thanks for the help

[tomsowerby]

TheHijacker, on 27 September 2010 - 06:40, said:

First of all check if cron is even running:

/etc/init.d/cron status

You should see something like this cron (pid 999) is running....

If it's not running then start it:

/etc/init.d/cron start

Also give me the output of this command:

crontab -l

Hello HJ,
Thanks for the replies and support with this.

Your prediction was correct - the cron was not running! (A good lesson in not assuming things).
The rdiff task shows up in crontab -l so hopefully it'll run later today.

I'll look into why the cron isn't starting when the system boots.

Thanks for your help.

[intrax]

Hi,


First of all thank you very much for all the nice work you did on e-TRAYz and the app installer !

I installed rdiff-backup and noticed there is a web frontend for it (rdiffweb).

Would it be possible to make an epkg pakket for it and add rdiffweb to the etrayz installer ?

Would be really nice !

rgds,
intrax

[TheHijacker]

Bit busy at the moment. Will put it in to-do list and check it out.

[aggelef]

Hello TheHijacker,

I want to thank you for the great web app and the work you've spent. it works great

Is it possible to connect to an external Ethernet hardisk. (perm. samba mount)
And use Rdiff to backup/sync to the new samba mount. (external Ethernet hardisk)

thks
Frank

[TheHijacker]

You can mount it using NFS like so:

mount -t nfs 'SERVER_ip:/home/somefolder/subfolder' '/mounting/point'

To make it mount also on reboot add this to /etc/fstab:

SERVER_IP:/home/somefolder/subfolder /mounting/point nfs rw 0 0

It can probably mounted by samba, but I don't know exactly how.

[mikeo]

There is a GUI for rdiff-backup.

Would be nice if you can put thuis in program.
http://rdiffbackupweb.sourceforge.net/

[TheHijacker]

Please don't open new topics if they already exist for specific application.

[aam]

Hi,
Can you please tell me if it is possible to use rdiff-backup to create a mirror of the Etrayz operating system partition.

I have FHEM loaded and working perfectly but have had to load additional modules, tweek config files ect to get it right.
Its been a lot of work so would like to be able to restore the whole system back as it is now should I have to reload the OS in the future.

Thankyou
Alan

[ariznaf]

I am still using etrayz as the family NAS and backup solution.

I am having problems with user creation or modification, but the system is otherwise working well.

I want to thank you, TheHiJacker (never did before) for your efforts and the plugins provided.
They are good workarrounds for etrayz weakness issues.

I am using rdiff-backup for the backup of etrayz data in its own disk, and rsync for syncing with xtreamer.

I would like to use rsync to sync data fron the PCs of my family to etrayz, but it lacks a good interface in windows and detecting of file change (to sync files with the etrayz as soon as a change happens).
For this purpose I use another app running in the windows machines (SyncBack Pro).

Then, once a day, a cron job uses rdiff-backup to do incremental backups of user data, which is maintained 90 days, and deleted afterwards.

From time to time, I manually run a script in my xtremer (old first version) to sync most important data (mainly my photos, videos and films) with it, to hace a copy in case etrayz burn out (and a local copy to see the films).
All that is about 500+ GB of data.

I have tried the gui mentioned above, rdiffbackupweb, as I was looking for a way to be able to view files in a snapshot backup, and restore just selected ones.
But it does not work well. The web page hungs for ever, it is too slow, as etrayz seems to be too slow to the task.

Thank you for your efforts.

By the way, do you know if there is an active user forum of etrayz, as xtremer.net has closed down all etrayz forums?