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Yes, classic case of problem exists somewhere between chair and keyboard

Sorry quick question.. my cache drive failed and I am trying to restore from backups... I have a few docker containers and I'd like them to come back.. I've ran the restore function.. against a backup I did a few days ago.. and that completed successfully.. but the docker containers are still not appearing... am I doing something silly? Bit of a noob question I suppose but I know there is something simple I'm just not doing... Thanks Craig EDIT; I've figured it out, I needed to restore the containers from their templates, which I've done.. all fully restored.. nice app! Thanks!

Not sure if this has been mentioned, this is an observation, but the settings for schedulling are confusing e.g. If I set daily for "Scheduled Backup Frequency" I can still set "Day of Week"? Same goes for Month... Then if I use Cron I thought this would overrides everything but I can still change those settings... I think it would be good for some feedback to show what it's actually taken as the setting.. or have the menu adapt / grey out options depending on what is selected under Backup Frequency... e..g if Custom is taken only Cron isn't grey'd out.. etc... I didn't realise my Cron wasn't being used until this morning when I say the schedule backup setting was on "Daily". Thanks Craig

Thanks.. but then I also have this in the log before this.. [12.03.2023 03:00:04] Stopping binhex-plexpass... done! (took 2 seconds) That indicates it did stop right? Perhaps it's a timing thing?

[12.03.2023 03:00:08] Backing Up /usr/bin/tar: ./binhex-plexpass/Plex Media Server: file changed as we read it /usr/bin/tar: ./binhex-plexpass: file changed as we read it /usr/bin/tar: .: file changed as we read it [12.03.2023 03:26:38] tar creation/extraction failed! Is this the issue that's causing backups to fail?

Afraid not.. and I've just checked the config file and it's written back to how it was so I'll have to copy in the lines again... but I'm getting no additional logs.. I must be doing something wrong but I don't know what...

I'm sorry but I'm not sure which logs should I be looking in, and where are they located?

I've checked again today and still no additional files available in the directory, it's still failing when it runs automatically. Thanks Craig

Ok I've checked that this was in the file now, and the output is largely the same. The directory you mention does not exist, there is a ca.backup2/ folder but that has a tempFiles directory in it which is empty. I can only think I'm doing something wrong, but I've checked and I updated the script correctly... and ideas? This is the output from the log screen. [28.02.2023 03:00:01] Backup of appData starting. This may take awhile [28.02.2023 03:00:01] Not stopping binhex-krusader: Not started! [ / Created] [28.02.2023 03:00:01] Not stopping binhex-mineos-node: Not started! [ / Exited (0) 10 days ago] [28.02.2023 03:00:01] Stopping binhex-nzbget... done! (took 2 seconds) [28.02.2023 03:00:03] Stopping binhex-plexpass... done! (took 2 seconds) [28.02.2023 03:00:05] Stopping binhex-radarr... done! (took 1 seconds) [28.02.2023 03:00:06] Stopping binhex-sonarr... done! (took 0 seconds) [28.02.2023 03:00:06] Stopping cups... done! (took 1 seconds) [28.02.2023 03:00:07] Not stopping DiskSpeed: Not started! [ / Created] [28.02.2023 03:00:07] Backing Up appData from /mnt/cache/appdata/ to /mnt/user/Backups/appdatabackup/[email protected] [28.02.2023 03:00:07] Separate archives disabled! Saving into one file. [28.02.2023 03:00:07] Backing Up /usr/bin/tar: ./binhex-plexpass/Plex Media Server: file changed as we read it /usr/bin/tar: ./binhex-plexpass: file changed as we read it /usr/bin/tar: .: file changed as we read it [28.02.2023 03:28:38] tar creation/extraction failed! [28.02.2023 03:28:39] Verifying Backup [28.02.2023 03:42:05] done [28.02.2023 03:42:05] Starting cups... (try #1) done! [28.02.2023 03:42:07] Starting binhex-nzbget... (try #1) done! [28.02.2023 03:42:12] Starting binhex-plexpass... (try #1) done! [28.02.2023 03:42:17] Starting binhex-radarr... (try #1) done! [28.02.2023 03:42:24] Starting binhex-sonarr... (try #1) done! [28.02.2023 03:42:30] A error occurred somewhere. Not deleting old backup sets of appdata [28.02.2023 03:42:30] Backup / Restore Completed Just for clarity... this is what the file looks like; } unlink($communityPaths['verifyProgress']); if ($returnValue > 0) { // Todo: Being overwritten!! backupLog("tar verify failed!"); $debug = "/tmp/ca.backup.debug.".uniqid(); file_put_contents($debug, json_encode($dockerClient->getDockerContainers(), JSON_PRETTY_PRINT)); $output = $outval = null; exec("docker ps -a", $output, $outval); file_put_contents($debug, json_encode($output, JSON_PRETTY_PRINT), FILE_APPEND); backupLog("DEBUG: dockerInfo written to /tmp/"); $errorOccured = true; } Line 317 = backupLog("tar verify failed!");

I've done this so I'll have to let it run automatically now and report back.

[23.02.2023 03:00:01] Backup of appData starting. This may take awhile [23.02.2023 03:00:01] Not stopping binhex-krusader: Not started! [ / Created] [23.02.2023 03:00:01] Not stopping binhex-mineos-node: Not started! [ / Exited (0) 5 days ago] [23.02.2023 03:00:01] Stopping binhex-nzbget... done! (took 2 seconds) [23.02.2023 03:00:03] Stopping binhex-plexpass... done! (took 2 seconds) [23.02.2023 03:00:05] Stopping binhex-radarr... done! (took 1 seconds) [23.02.2023 03:00:06] Stopping binhex-sonarr... done! (took 0 seconds) [23.02.2023 03:00:06] Stopping cups... done! (took 1 seconds) [23.02.2023 03:00:07] Not stopping DiskSpeed: Not started! [ / Created] [23.02.2023 03:00:07] Backing Up appData from /mnt/cache/appdata/ to /mnt/user/Backups/appdatabackup/[email protected] [23.02.2023 03:00:07] Separate archives disabled! Saving into one file. [23.02.2023 03:00:07] Backing Up /usr/bin/tar: ./binhex-plexpass/Plex Media Server: file changed as we read it /usr/bin/tar: ./binhex-plexpass: file changed as we read it /usr/bin/tar: .: file changed as we read it [23.02.2023 03:20:00] tar creation/extraction failed! [23.02.2023 03:20:00] Verifying Backup [23.02.2023 03:32:12] done [23.02.2023 03:32:12] Starting cups... (try #1) done! [23.02.2023 03:32:14] Starting binhex-nzbget... (try #1) done! [23.02.2023 03:32:20] Starting binhex-plexpass... (try #1) done! [23.02.2023 03:32:25] Starting binhex-radarr... (try #1) done! [23.02.2023 03:32:32] Starting binhex-sonarr... (try #1) done! [23.02.2023 03:32:39] A error occurred somewhere. Not deleting old backup sets of appdata [23.02.2023 03:32:39] Backup / Restore Completed My backup is throwing an error every time it runs on the scehdule.. weirdly when I ran it manually just now I did not get this error...

Ok I've done that now.. but the reason I started using NFS shares.. was because SMB is incredibly slow... now I can't use NFS because that's unreliable... I'm kinda stuck

I will do that

This might be more useful as I have not reset the server...

tower-diagnostics-20221124-1614.zip