Backups Not running automatically

[MWubbema]

Hi Chris,

Kind of a old topic you revived. Perhaps a new topic would have been better in this case.

That being said, I too had this problem with a few backups not auto-starting while 19 out of 20 clients were being backupped normally. At this point i’m assuming it’s due to the exponential backoff feature that pauses the creation of backups for a client (for a while) when several backups of this client failed.

While I have not found a fix in the code, database or such. I have implemented a workaround through the Python API that checks and attempts to run any backups that have missed their normal backup schedule. Maybe that’s of help to you as well?

You can find the scripts here:

Not all backups running automatically

Just as a update for anyone finding this topic at a later date. I think it’s related to the exponential backoff, but I can’t be sure. The backups just arent triggered by the server. I resolved this by creating a python script to access the server through the api, check if any image backups have not run as they should have been according to their schedule + 4 hours, and then trigger a incremental or full backup, based on if the next backup is supposed to be a incremental or full backup (again, th…