NagiosXI: 2014R2.0: Scheduled Backups

[questrad]

Hello,

After upgrading we starting to use Scheduled Backups-> Local component.
Everything is fine - backup work as expected.
But looks like Backup Limit are not working

Backup Limit The amount of backups you'd like too keep before replacing the oldest backup. You can enter 0 to keep unlimited backups.

I have value 90, but looks like it does not work:

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#/store/backups/nagiosxi# ls -lrt nagiosxi.14*.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 181088562 Jun 27 19:00 nagiosxi.1403910002.tar.gz
-rw-r--r-- 1 nagios nagios 186173432 Jun 28 19:00 nagiosxi.1403996402.tar.gz
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Also, here is some question and suggestion:

Can you provide also some more details about what script is going to executed in the background.
If it is backup_xi.sh – please give possibility to leverage the future that the backup script is provided as well:

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[Tue Dec 02 21:37:02] root@sq5vplngs001://usr/local/nagiosxi/scripts# ./backup_xi.sh -h

Use this script to backup Nagios XI.

-n | –name Set the name of the backup minus the .tar.gz
-p | –prepend Prepend a string to the .tar.gz name
-a | –append Append a string to the .tar.gz name
-d | –directory Change the directory to store the compressed backup

[lmiltchev]

Go to the Admin->Manage Components, and see what is the version of the "Scheduled Backups" component that is listed there.
We haven't been able to reproduce the issue in house (running Version: 1.0.6).

[questrad]

I have exactly same version - 1.0.6
Is there any way to debug it?

[lmiltchev]

Let's first look at the log for clues:

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cat /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/components/scheduledbackups.log

[questrad]

That was the first thing that I did.
Same result as now:

[Wed Dec 03 18:31:02] root@sq5vrlngs001:~# ll /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/components/scheduledbackups.log
ls: cannot access /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/components/scheduledbackups.log: No such file or directory

[Wed Dec 03 18:32:14] root@sq5vrlngs001:~# ll /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/components/
total 212
-rwxrwxr-x 1 apache nagios 25 May 30 2014 bpi.log
-rw-r--r-- 1 apache nagios 207680 Dec 3 11:12 capacityplanning.log

[lmiltchev]

Can you list the files in the "scheduledbackups" directory?

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ll /usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/scheduledbackups/

[questrad]

Here:

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[Thu Dec 04 20:48:11] root@sq5vrlngs001:/usr/local/nagiosxi/html/includes/components/scheduledbackups# ls -l *
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios   5044 Nov 12 15:19 ajaxcalls.php
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios    918 Nov 12 15:19 CHANGES.txt
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios    202 Nov 12 15:19 install.sh
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios  61204 Nov 12 15:19 localbackups.php
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios 103092 Nov 12 15:19 managebackups.php
-rwxr-x--- 1 nagios nagios    281 Nov 12 15:19 runlocalbackup.php
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios  94988 Nov 12 15:19 scheduledbackups.inc.php

images:
total 16
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios  781 Nov 12 15:19 accept.png
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios 4178 Nov 12 15:19 ajax-loader.gif
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios  701 Nov 12 15:19 exclamation.png

includes:
total 8
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios  93 Nov 12 15:19 ftp_test_upload.txt
-rw-r----- 1 nagios nagios 110 Nov 12 15:19 ssh_test_secure_copy.txt

[lmiltchev]

Your permissions are exactly the same as mine. I am at loss here. Let's try this - go to Admin->Scheduled Backups->Local->set "Schedule Backup For" = <a few minutes in the future> and click on "Update Settings". Open a ssh (putty) session to the Nagios XI server, and start a running tail on the "cmdsubsys.log":

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tail -f /usr/local/nagiosxi/var/cmdsubsys.log

Watch the output until the backup is complete, then exit (Ctrl+c) and post the output.

[tgriep]

We found out from our developer on how the old backups are removed during scheduled backups.

When the backup runs, it will delete only one of the latest files, not all of them that are over the limit.
If you had your backup limit set to 140 and then changed it to 90, it will not delete the 50 oldest backups at the next time it is run, only the oldest.

If you go in to Local Backup Archives and manually delete the older backups to be less that 90, it will start to work for you.

Post back if that works for you.

[questrad]

Ok, thanks.

Looks like I need continue using my script for backup purposes.
But it is a way to use the option that backup_xi.sh is provide?
Especially the file name, my script is using human readable file name based on date and time.
I dont want making changes in backup script every time when we do upgrade of NagiosXI.