I was looking into setting up autoburt for the new c1auxex2 and found that it stopped making automatic backups for all machines after the beginning of the new year. There is no 2018 folder (it was the only one missing) in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots and the /latest/ link in /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/ leads to the last backup of 2017 on 12/31/17 at 23:19.
The autoburt log file shows that the back script last ran today 01/10/18 at 14:19, as it should have, but doesn't show any errors and ends with "You are at the 40m".
I'm not familiar with the autoburt scheduling using cronjobs. If I'm not mistaken the relevant cronjob file is /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/autoburt/autoburt.cron which executes /cvs/cds/rtcds/caltech/c1/scripts/autoburt/autoburt.pl
I've never used perl but there's the following statement when establishing the directory for the new backup:
$yearpath = $autoburtpath."/snapshots/".$thisyear;
# print "scanning for path $yearpath\n";
if (!-e $yearpath) {
die "ERROR: Year directory $yearpath does not exist\n";
}
I manually created the /opt/rtcds/caltech/c1/burt/autoburt/snapshots/2018/ directory. Maybe this fixes the hickup? Gotta wait about 30 minutes. |