Backup weirdness

[jbarr]

My /backup folder keeps growing about every 10 minutes with tmp.* folders.

1. Nothing removes old folders--they just keep accumulating
2. I suspended the VestaCP cron job...

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sudo /usr/local/vesta/bin/v-backup-users

...but that didn't seem to help. Obviously it's something else.

A few days ago, I initiated a Backup from within VestaCP and I got a message that an email would be sent, but I never received any email. I tried re-running the Backup and I get the error stating that a backup is already in progress.

How do I terminate this backup?

Thanks in advance!

Jim

[jbarr]

OK, I think I resolved the issue:

Files kept showing up in /backup/tmp.*, and r ps -ef showed that /usr/local/vesta/data/queue/backup.pipe was executing.

I looked in /usr/local/vesta/data/queue and found the following:

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/usr/local/vesta/data/queue# ls -l
total 16
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  85 May  4 16:56 backup.pipe
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 153 Apr 19 11:43 disk.pipe
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root   0 May  5 13:04 restart.pipe
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root  54 Apr 19 11:43 traffic.pipe
-rwxr-x--- 1 root root 143 Apr 19 13:54 webstats.pipe

The file backup.pipe contained the commands to execute the backup.

So I killed the job, moved /usr/local/vesta/data/queue/backup.pipe to a holding folder, and removed all the /backup/tmp.* folders, and everything appears to be humming along just fine.

Obviously, I need to ensure that VestaCP (or some other process) will backup reliably, but for now, at least the VPS will stay up.