Hi, uroni. Thank you for the response. I have tried “start_urbackup_server --remove_unknown” as you suggested.
The output showed that it removed some files for the “MARLENE-HP” client (the client that is working), but none for “STAFF-HP” (the client that’s not working). In any case, even prior to executing the command, the path “/urbackup/office_backup/STAFF-HP” is already empty.
After the clean-up, the situation has not changed much: MARLENE-HP can still perform backups, STAFF-HP still cannot, with the following error message from the log:
2014-01-27 10:28:18: ERROR: Cannot create Directory for backup (Server error)
2014-01-27 10:28:19: ERROR: Backup failed
From the “start_urbackup_server --remove_unknown” output, I found the following message to be of interest:
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Testing if backup destination can handle subvolumes and snapshots...
Create subvolume '/urbackup/office_backup/testA54hj5luZtlorr494/A'
ERROR: cannot create subvolume - Inappropriate ioctl for device
chown: cannot access `/urbackup/office_backup/testA54hj5luZtlorr494/A': No such file or directory
Creating test subvolume failed
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Backup destination cannot handle subvolumes and snapshots. Snapshots disabled.
Does it provide a hint to the puzzle of a problem that is with STAFF-HP? Any insight or tip is much appreciated!
Here is the full output from “start_urbackup_server --remove_unknown”:
ben@mint-server /etc/init.d $ sudo start_urbackup_server --remove_unknown
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Changing user...
2014-01-27 10:17:58: done.
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Loaded -pychart- plugin
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Loaded -url- plugin
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Loaded -cryptoplugin- plugin
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Loaded -download- plugin
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Loaded -fsimageplugin- plugin
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Starting HTTP-Server on port 55414
2014-01-27 10:17:58: HTTP: Server started up sucessfully!
2014-01-27 10:17:58: Going to remove all unknown files and directories in the urbackup storage directory. Waiting 20 seconds...
2014-01-27 10:18:18: Shutting down all database instances...
2014-01-27 10:18:18: Destroying all databases...
2014-01-27 10:18:18: Opening urbackup server database...
2014-01-27 10:18:18: Created new database connection for urbackup/backup_server.db
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Created new database connection for urbackup/backup_server.db
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Testing if backup destination can handle subvolumes and snapshots...
Create subvolume '/urbackup/office_backup/testA54hj5luZtlorr494/A'
ERROR: cannot create subvolume - Inappropriate ioctl for device
chown: cannot access `/urbackup/office_backup/testA54hj5luZtlorr494/A': No such file or directory
Creating test subvolume failed
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Backup destination cannot handle subvolumes and snapshots. Snapshots disabled.
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Transitioning urbackup server database to different journaling mode...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Cleaning up 0 percent
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Cleaning up 0 bytes on backup storage
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Database cache size is 400 MB
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Starting cleanup...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Freeing database connections...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Destroying all databases...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Created new database connection for urbackup/backup_server.db
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Enough free space now.
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Enough free space now.
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Updating statistics...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Copying files from files_new table...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Deleting contents of files_new table...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Updating image stats...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Updating deleted files...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Updating file stats...
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Done updating statistics.
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Enough free space now.
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Cleanup successfull.
2014-01-27 10:18:19: Created new database connection for urbackup/backup_server.db
2014-01-27 10:18:19: WARNING: File backup "140117-1603" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1606" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1607" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1614" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1622" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1626" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1633" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1639" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1646" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1652" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1659" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "140117-1705" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "Image_SYSVOL_140113-1413.vhd" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "Image_SYSVOL_140113-1413.vhd.hash" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: WARNING: File backup "Image_SYSVOL_140117-1413.vhd" of client "MARLENE-HP" not found in database. Deleting it.
2014-01-27 10:18:20: Removing dangling file entries...
2014-01-27 10:18:20: Successfully removed all unknown files in backup directory.