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jobs.log shows this when we attempt to run backups:

Running command do_backups with args ' ' for job id: backups
SUCCESS
Running command create_backup with args ' ' for job id: AVNRx2vvGIModds_jQW8
cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/local/nagioslogserver/snapshots/*.tar.gz’: No such file or directory
SUCCESS

I've confirmed that the nagios user has the ability to create/modify files in the repository location.

The backups are not being created. This is a new install recently and the first time setting up the backups.

The backup that you're running is a configuration backup, not a log backup. Please try running 'backup and maintenance' command instead and let me know what show up in jobs.log: Though I do think the following error is concerning:

cp: cannot stat ‘/usr/local/nagioslogserver/snapshots/*.tar.gz’: No such file or directory

Hopefully it's simply improper permissions on the above. Give this a try: The output should look similar to this:

Thanks Jesse.

First I found that /store/backups didn't exist, so I added that and gave it to the nagios user.

I then reset the permissions on the directory for the archive/snapshots, and it all seems good. For some reason the backup_maintenance command wasn't running, so I ran it manually from the interface (Administration -> Command Subsystem -> Edit next run time to 'run now'), and it's now scheduled to run.

Excellent, I'm glad to hear it. Would it be alright if I closed this thread? Thank you!