Recording schedule backup & restore

[moonbrain]

Can anyone offer any help as to why my daily auto backups has stopped working for the scheduled events.
I only found this out after the box did a retune and i went into scheduled events and the last entry was over two weeks old.

 

[prpr]

Run these using a Telnet command line session, or a Webshell or whatever and report back with the output:

humax# cat /mod/var/spool/cron/crontabs/root
humax# cat /mod/etc/anacrontab
humax# pgrep crond

You could also try running the backup manually and see what it outputs:

humax# /mod/webif/html/sched/backup/backup.jim

 

[moonbrain]

heres the results from running the commands, hope you can help

 

[prpr]

Not sure really. It all looks OK, but the fact you got all those old deletions shows it hasn't run for a while.
What does "ls -l /mod/var/spool/anacron" say?

 

[moonbrain]

humax# ls -l /mod/var/spool/anacron
-rw------- 1 root root 9 Jul 15 00:32 diskattrs
-rw------- 1 root root 9 Jul 15 00:33 empty_dustbin
-rw------- 1 root root 9 Jul 15 00:35 sched_backup
humax#

 

[Black Hole]

Newbies' Guide to the Forum (click), specifically section entitled "Code Listings and Terminal Output".

 

[af123]

How about the output from:
cat /mod/etc/init.d/S02anacron
?

 

[moonbrain]

Thanks to Black Hole for info on posting code,I,m just a newbie so hope you can bear with me & any mistakes I make.
anyway here's the result for output request from af123 above,Thanks also to prpr for your help.

humax# cat /mod/etc/init.d/S02anacron
#!/bin/sh

export TZ=GMT+0BST,M3.5.0/1,M10.5.0/2

case "$1" in
  start)
  /mod/sbin/anacron -s -d & ;;
  stop)
  exit 0 ;;
  *)
  exit 1 ;;
esac

 

[prpr]

See this thread for probable solution:
https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/backup-schedule-daily.7275/

 

[moonbrain]

I have found a answer to the problem I was having with my Humax box where auto backup had stopped working in scheduled events/backup & restore.
the solution that has worked for me was to load webif by usb stick.

go to http://wiki.hummy.tv/wiki/Manually_loading_Features_from_USB

where it says

"If it is not practical to connect your Humax box to the Internet via a cable or wireless, then software packages can be loaded onto the Humax by placing them onto a USB Disk drive. The packages themselves can be downloaded from http://hpkg.tv/packages.html. Each package is available for download as an individual file or as a bundle. A bundle contains the package itself along with all of its dependencies, and is the recommended and easiest way to install software. "

I went to http://hpkg.tv/packages.html as mentioned & scrolled down to webif and downloaded the Bundle to usb stick

with the Humax on I inserted the stick, after a short while it stopped flashing and I removed the stick,powered the box off & then on.

it has done an auto update at approx 4.25 over the last week OK

Hope this will help anyone with the same or similar problem

 

[Black Hole]

What's auto-update got to do with auto-backup?

 

[moonbrain]

Sorry for any confusion between update & backup I was referring to the "auto backup of scheduled events" which is found by clicking on the schedule tab and then selecting Backup/Restore which then shows a list of Available backups either Manual or Auto which in my case had stopped working a while ago