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Recording schedule backup & restore

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moonbrain

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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.
 
Run these using a Telnet command line session, or a Webshell or whatever and report back with the output:
Code: 
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:
Code: 
humax# /mod/webif/html/sched/backup/backup.jim
 
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?
 
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#
 
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.

Code: 
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
 
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
 
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
 
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