zmschedulebackup not working properly

[wentum]

I have problems changing my backup schedule. I can change full (f) and incremental (i) backup schedule as expected but I can't change the deletion schedule. In fact it says 'schedule modified' but if i query again no deletion schedule is shown. It seems the only way to get any deletion is to reschedule DEFAULT (zmschedulebackup -D), then i get the 1m deletion entry back. Has anyone experienced the same?

[ewilen]

No, I haven't. Is this a fresh install of ZCS 7?

You can manually change the schedules in the crontab file with (as zimbra) crontab -e. It's not the recommended method but it's been necessary in the past, in order to set certain zmbackup options that weren't available in zmschedulebackup. It's always worked fine for me for this purpose.

However, you may lose those changes on upgrade, so be sure to keep track of what you've done.

[wentum]

No, it wasn't a fresh install. I upgraded from 6.0.10. Thanks a lot for the crontab hint. I'll use this meanwhile.

Joerg

[wentum]

Hem, it seems changes made to delete schedule are actually written into zimbra's crontab. But you can't see them using zmschedulebackup -q.

[ewilen]

I'm still on 6, but this is what I get

zmschedulebackup -q
Current Schedule:

	f 0 1 * * 6 -a all --noZip --mail-report
	i 0 1 * * 0-5 --noZip --mail-report
	d 1m 0 0 * * * --mail-report

[wentum]

OK, this is what I get:

zmschedulebackup -q
Current Schedule:

        i 0 1 * * 1-6
        f 0 1 * * 0 -a all

and this comes from crontab -e (I didn't change anything manually, used this one: zmschedulebackup -R i "0 1 * * 1-6" f "0 1 * * 0" d 14d "0 12 * * 0" ):

# BACKUP BEGIN
0 1 * * 1-6 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -i
0 1 * * 0 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -f -a all
0 12 * * 0 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del  14d
# BACKUP END

Strange, isn't it?!

[ewilen]

Maybe try zmschedulebackup -D, which will restore backup to default schedule. Then repeat zmschedulebackup -q and see what you get. If it gives you your schedule properly with a "d" line, enter zmschedulebackup commands one at a time and do zmschedulebackup -q after each one.

Also, are you sure that the delete jobs are taking place?

[thibault]

Hello,

I have the same issue.

update from 6.0.10 -> 7.0.0 -> 7.0.1

I see my backup place growing, growing too much.
I list my /opt/zimbra/backup/sessions/ and I see too much sub-folders names *full* or *incr*

Surprise, zmchedulebackup display only full ou incr but no deletion.
Not enough time to see if crontab -e give me zmbackup -del, i launch zmschedulebackup -D to restore default et relaunch my usual configuration (i prefer 10 days for deletion because of space ).

Now I still can see my crontab -e like that (i don't modify anything, zmchedulebackup did)

# BACKUP BEGIN
0 1 * * 6 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -f -a all
0 1 * * 0-5 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -i
0 0 * * * /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del  10d
# BACKUP END

but my zmchedulebackup still not display my deletion

zimbra@brutus:~$ zmschedulebackup 
Current Schedule:

	f 0 1 * * 6 -a all
	i 0 1 * * 0-5 
zimbra@brutus:~$

my tests have been made on ubuntu 8.04 32bits and 64 bits.

Pay attention when update, you have to modify your backup

(and receive errors when launch the /opt/zimbra/libexec/scripts/migrate20100913-Mysql51.pl)

[ewilen]

You are both on Ubuntu, so that may be a factor. We haven't heard back from the original poster but you could try to reproduce the error. You should also describe it precisely. I think there are three separate things that could be reported:

1. zmschedulebackup doesn't display the schedule correctly.
2. zmschedulebackup doesn't set the schedule correctly.
3. Even if schedule appears correct via crontab -l | grep zmbackup, the deletions aren't executed.

So be careful to specify exactly which one you can reproduce.

Then once you have the steps and symptoms, open a bug in bugzilla. And/or create a support case.

[wentum]

Yesterday i did an upgrade from 7.00 to 7.01 and afterwards my 'delete schedule' was gone again... So, i readded it again. (zmschedulebackup -R i "0 1 * * 1-6" f "0 1 * * 0" d 14d "0 12 * * *") Still zmschedulebackup -q is saying: Current Schedule:

i 0 1 * * 1-6
f 0 1 * * 0 -a all

crontab -e is saying:
# BACKUP BEGIN
0 1 * * 1-6 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -i
0 1 * * 0 /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -f -a all
0 12 * * * /opt/zimbra/bin/zmbackup -del 14d
# BACKUP END

But deletions are in fact working here with things setup as mentioned above!