SID-02439: TWiki_BackupRestorePlugin_Daemon directory and contents

Status:	Answered	TWiki version:	6.1.0	Perl version:
Category:	CategoryPlugins	Server OS:	FreeBSD (hosted)	Last update:	5 years ago

On my virtual server installation, the directory /tmp contains a directory /TWiki_BackupRestorePlugin_Daemon, which contains file_name.txt magic.txt pid.txt stderr.txt stdout.txt

On the hosted site, I set configuration to point to /home/protected/twiki/tmp and it is empty. Then, when I run the BackupRestoreConsole, I get the following message in the warning file:

That makes sense, since the /home/protected/twiki/tmp directory is empty (the Daemon directory (and contents) isn't there.

How do I create that directory and its contents?

-- David Tremain - 2020-03-30

Discussion and Answer

Likely caused by the /home/protected/twiki/tmp not being writable by the webserver user. Ask support to change ownership of that directory and content to the webserver user. Alternatively set the permission to 777.

-- Peter Thoeny - 2020-04-01

You need to make sure to change the permissions to 777 for /tmp recursively, and then enter configure and save. The files were created automagically.

However, when I try to create a backup, it just displays the spinning circle before the new backup file name, and the scanning bars under size. On my virtual server host, a full backup takes under a minute. On the hosted site, I waiting more than 45 minutes, and it did not complete.

When I tried to restore my web from the backup zip file I copied to the directory, it asked if I really wanted to restore, and then came back immediately. But nothing was restored. No errors displayed, and the error_log file had no relevant entries, and the access_log only showed accessing the BackupRestoreConsole (I think those are NFSHost logs).

I then went to PuTTY and did the command /usr/local/bin/unzip -l /home/protected/twiki/tmp/twiki-backup-2019-07-24-14-59.zip and it gave a list of all the files in the zip file.

So, I guess I figure out how to turn on backuprestore debug and where it records information, and see if I can get any visibility on what's going wrong...wrong...wrong...

-- David Tremain - 2020-04-01

Directory and contents are automatically created once permissions are correct.

-- David Tremain - 2020-04-03

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