Hey Guys,
my Virtualmin backup is not working if there's already a folder.
Structure of Backup-FTP is:
/virtualmin/%Y-%m-%d
"Create destination directory?" is checked.
If i run the backup on clean server without the virtualmin folder, the backup will be fine, but if there's already a backup virtualmin shows me this error.
HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/1.570 Date: Wed, 25 Jan 2012 10:38:14 GMT Content-type: text/html; Charset=iso-8859-1 Connection: close
Error - Perl execution failed
Modification of a read-only value attempted at /usr/share/webmin/web-lib-funcs.pl line 2789, line 14
Howdy,
Well, that's unusual!
In theory, it should be no problem to have an existing directory (that's in fact what I do on my own server).
If you look in /virtualmin, is there anything unusual about the owner of the directories that already existed?
One simpler thing I might suggest, is that sometimes errors like you're getting above can happen due to Virtualmin upgrades where Webmin wasn't properly restarted.
This is a long-shot, but can you try just giving Webmin a restart to see if that fixes it:
/etc/init.d/webmin restartIf that doesn't help, and you don't notice anything unusual with the permissions, let me know and we can ask Jamie what he thinks :-)
-Eric
Hi Eric,
thank you for your response.
In theory it should work. Existing folders don't have to be a problem.
I restarted Webmin several times (also restarted the whole system), but the result stays the same. No Virtualmin-backup if the /virtualmin folder exists on backup-ftp.
Here some screenshots from the backup-ftp. User should be 56334.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9550987/webmin/backup-ftp-root.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9550987/webmin/backup-ftp-virtualmin.png http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9550987/webmin/backup-ftp-virtualmin2.png
I found out, if i make the backup on root-level (/virtualmin-%Y-%m-%d) without auto-delete, the backup is working. But i need to delete the old backups, because my backup-space is only around 250GB.