Encrypted backups failing

Submitted by pixel on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 17:35

Hi guys,

Well, as promised, I bought Virtualmin Pro, and tried the encrypted backups, with this failure e-mail...any ideas?

Backup failed! See the progress output above for the reason why. Total backup time was 00 minutes, 08 seconds.

Virtual servers that failed : .com Sent by Virtualmin at: https://.com:10000

Creating backup for virtual server ***.com .. Copying virtual server configuration .. .. done

Saving mail aliases .. .. done

Saving mail and FTP users .. .. done

Backing up mail and FTP user Cron jobs .. .. none to backup

Copying Apache virtual host configuration .. .. done

Copying Apache log files .. .. done

Copying SSL Apache virtual host configuration and certificate .. .. done

Copying Logrotate configuration .. .. done

Dumping MySQL database ***.. .. done

Creating incremental TAR file of home directory .. .. TAR failed! gpg: cannot open `/dev/tty': No such device or address

gzip: stdout: Broken pipe /bin/tar: -: Cannot write: Broken pipe /bin/tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by andreychek on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 18:43

Jamie, doing a little research on this problem, I see that there are some gpg users who ran into this in various circumstances.

Some users said they got around this particular problem by passing in the "--no-tty" option to gpg. Is there a way to do that from within Virtualmin?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 02/26/2015 - 19:00

I could certain add this flag to the gpg command when Virtualmin calls it.

However, the issue may be that the GPG key being used is protected by a passphrase?

Submitted by pixel on Fri, 02/27/2015 - 13:57

Jamie - good call. Thanks.