Unable to schedule backup with number of days !

Submitted by vincen on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 02:07 Pro Licensee

Hi

Whatever destination chosen (S3 or regular FTP), I'm unable to schedule a whole backup with 30 days of history maximum !

Each time it gets me this error message:

Failed to save scheduled backup : Deletion of old backups is only supported when a date-based destination is used, and strftime substitutions are enabled

I have well ticked strftime option and Create Directory as indicated in Documentation ! Did I miss something ? I have same issue on my two Virtualmin servers !

Thanks

Vincèn

Status: 
Closed (fixed)

Comments

Submitted by JamieCameron on Thu, 09/03/2015 - 21:56

What are you entering for the backup destination path exactly?

Submitted by vincen on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 01:02 Pro Licensee

Hum there is no destination path requested only a File on Server !!!

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 01:18

Yes, "File on server" is the destination path. If you want to create one directory per day, this should be set to something like pro-%d

Submitted by vincen on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 01:29 Pro Licensee

I don't need one directory per day, I just need one file for whole server backup per day and that it keeps them only 30 days. Should I let then the directory field empty ?

Submitted by JamieCameron on Fri, 09/04/2015 - 15:27

Ok, in that case you should enter the destination like pro-2/backups-%d.tar.gz and set the "Backup format" to "Single archive file"

Submitted by vincen on Sun, 09/06/2015 - 05:17 Pro Licensee

Perfect, it works like a charm this way :)

Thanks

Vincèn

Submitted by Issues on Sun, 09/20/2015 - 14:18

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.