Set periodic backups

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Hello everyone,

i am using the Nectcloudpi Software (21.0.3.1/v1.37.2) on a RaspberryPi4 (All Updates were done).

I am working with a Raid HDD Device its conectet with USB3 on my Pi. I using 2 500GB Drives, thats enough for my family.

Now i am thinking about a backup option for doing every night a automatic backup on a second hdd device, its connect to the Pi too.

The drives are mountet in /mnt/raid and /mnt/backup

All is working well do far.

Now i was set up in the Nextcloud Panel in automatic backups the arrow to

  • Active → ‘YES’

  • Destination Directory → ‘/mnt/backup’

  • Include data → ‘YES’

  • Compress → ‘NO’

  • Backup periodicity (in days) → ‘1’

  • Number of backups to keep → ‘4’

Now, my problem was, that the first 4 Backups were made in the destination folder (/mnt/backup) with the date from

  • 20210730…
  • 20210731…
  • 20210801…
  • 20210802…

and here the backup making stops?!?

I am wrong in my opinion that the oldest backup was removed when the actually backup were written? Why i have no backup from 20210803 and 20210804 and so on - and the oldest was deleted, that i have always 4 backups in my hand? What i am doing wrong? The periodic days means that after every 1 day a backup was done, or iam am wrong?

many greeting from germany

Stefan

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Can you start manually the backup?
Perhaps only the script to start the backup does not work.

3

Yes, i can start a manually backup if i want, but i want it automatic in the night, because the nextcloud goes then in maintenance Mode… :wink:

4

Yes. But does it work if you start it manually?
If yes perhaps the cron job does not work correct.

5

Yes, the first backup was manually to check, that the backup drive is woking and mountet correct… (UUID entry in fstab)

The script does 4 backups with the backupdays (see above), but stops now…

Whre i can check in terminal the cron job for the backup script? → /var_/www/nextcloud/cron.php ?