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Scheduled backups causing Frontview to fail
Hi,
First post... not been able to find an answer to this q via search (but then hits for "Frontview" are everywhere).
I have had a ReadyNAS Duo (1GB Ram) with 2x 2TB drives in it. I have had it for ages and I have had no Frontview issues before.
My New Year Resolution was to get my ReadyNAS backed up, so I bought a 2TB USB hard drive and pluged it into one of the rear USB ports. The USB drive was NTFS formatted and the ReadyNAS spotted and mounted it without a hitch.
Following other forum posts I configured a bunch of RSYNC backups to copy shares to USB hard drive folders.
Great. The initial full backups to ages, but now the incrementals whizz through and I am pleased with the backup results.
Now to my issue. Since starting to use these scheduled backups, I have had to restart the Frontview service, pretty much every day. I have enabled SSH root access, so I have been successfully restarting Frontview:
ReadyNAS1:~# /etc/init.d/frontview restart
Stopping frontview: apache-sslNo /usr/sbin/apache-ssl found running; none killed.
Starting frontview: apache-sslapache-ssl: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.0.202 for ServerName
ReadyNAS1:~#
I was running firmware v4.1.9, and I have upgraded to v4.1.10. The Frontview issue is still happening. For example I had to restart Frontview this morning, following a successful backup job last night.
Now I am not a ReadyNAS expert, but I am concluding that my Frontview issues are connected to my scheduled backups.
Any advice would be appreciated. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for it?
Many thanks in advance,
Ian Neill
First post... not been able to find an answer to this q via search (but then hits for "Frontview" are everywhere).
I have had a ReadyNAS Duo (1GB Ram) with 2x 2TB drives in it. I have had it for ages and I have had no Frontview issues before.
My New Year Resolution was to get my ReadyNAS backed up, so I bought a 2TB USB hard drive and pluged it into one of the rear USB ports. The USB drive was NTFS formatted and the ReadyNAS spotted and mounted it without a hitch.
Following other forum posts I configured a bunch of RSYNC backups to copy shares to USB hard drive folders.
Great. The initial full backups to ages, but now the incrementals whizz through and I am pleased with the backup results.
Now to my issue. Since starting to use these scheduled backups, I have had to restart the Frontview service, pretty much every day. I have enabled SSH root access, so I have been successfully restarting Frontview:
ReadyNAS1:~# /etc/init.d/frontview restart
Stopping frontview: apache-sslNo /usr/sbin/apache-ssl found running; none killed.
Starting frontview: apache-sslapache-ssl: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 192.168.0.202 for ServerName
ReadyNAS1:~#
I was running firmware v4.1.9, and I have upgraded to v4.1.10. The Frontview issue is still happening. For example I had to restart Frontview this morning, following a successful backup job last night.
Now I am not a ReadyNAS expert, but I am concluding that my Frontview issues are connected to my scheduled backups.
Any advice would be appreciated. Is this a known issue? Is there a fix for it?
Many thanks in advance,
Ian Neill
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- Hi,
Reply to my own post... ho hum, anyway.
I did a lot more research ony my Frontview fail problem. Nothing definitive came up, but there were several suggestions of a BITTORRENT addon issue, so I pursued that.
I do not currently have a BITTORRENT addon installed, but over a year ago I did. I seem to recall that my ReadyNAS had the Netgear addon installed, that I removed it and tried Transmission for a while. Either way, tried it for a bit and then removed it too. However, I found a BITTORRENT directory in the addons folder, and it contained some scripts referencing files long since deleted:
ReadyNAS1:/etc/frontview/addons/bin/BITTORRENT# ls -l
total 48
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 45 May 29 2008 running.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 46 Jun 18 2008 start.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 admin admin 77 Jun 18 2008 stop.sh
So I deleted the entire directory with:
ReadyNAS1:/etc/frontview/addons/bin# rm -rf BITTORRENT
Additionally I increased the Frontview logging level:
/etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf -> backup copied to /etc/frontview/apache/httpd.conf.old
Using vi I changed LogLevel warn to LogLevel info and then restarted FrontView again (/etc/init.d/frontview restart).
Well that was 3 weeks ago, ande since then I have not had a single problem with Frontview failing and it is doing daily scheduled backup jobs to a USB hdd. It is working like a champion.
Hope this helps someone else.
Ian
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