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Domain-Backup Failed

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#1 Wed, 01/21/2015 - 10:27

rainfly

Domain-Backup Failed

Trying to make a copy of a client's current website, put it on another server and use it as a development bed.

I was following the instructions on the Server Migration documentation page but Im getting a failed error with not much information.

# virtualmin backup-domain --dest /root/backups/ --all-domains --all-features --newformat --all-virtualmin
Starting backup..
Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
Creating backup for virtual server blog.austinlawrence.com ..
    Copying virtual server configuration ..
    .. done

    Saving mail aliases ..
    .. done

    Saving mail and FTP users ..
Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
    .. done

    Backing up mail and FTP user Cron jobs ..
Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
    .. none to backup

Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
    Copying Apache virtual host configuration ..
    .. done

    Copying Apache log files ..
    .. done

    Copying Webalizer configuration files ..
    .. done

    Copying Logrotate configuration ..
    .. done

Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
    Dumping MySQL database blog ..
Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored
    .. dump failed! Warning: World-writable config file '/etc/my.cnf' is ignored


    
        Saving Virtualmin configuration ..
        .. done

        Saving templates and plans ..
        .. done

        Saving email templates ..
        .. done

        Saving custom fields, links, categories and shells ..
        .. done

        Saving custom script installers ..
        .. done

        Saving scheduled backups ..
        .. done

        Saving FTP directory restrictions ..
        .. done

        Saving DKIM settings ..
        .. not installed

        Saving greylisting settings ..
        .. not installed

        Save mail rate limiting configuration ..
        .. not installed

        Saving mail server configuration ..
        .. done

    .. done

    Backup failed!

His server is kind of a mess and I'm treading very carefully because Im not sure what is broken yet. Any advice here? Is there a better way to go about this?

Ideally I would like two identical websites on two different domains, one that I can break and the other that stays live.

Thanks for any help!

#2 Wed, 01/21/2015 - 11:17

andreychek

Howdy,

Hmm, I don't see anything in all that which appears to be an error -- just the warning about "/etc/my.cnf".

However, perhaps we should fix that warning, and work from there.

It sounds like /etc/my.cnf is set to be world writable, which is a security concern.

My suggestion would be to run this command, which will leave it as world readable, but not writable:

chmod 644 /etc/my.cnf

After that, does the backup/restore work properly?

-Eric

#3 Wed, 01/21/2015 - 11:26

rainfly

That did the trick! Such a simple fix. Thanks very much.

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