WHM Backup not Backing Up All Files in /home

[HowdyHost]

Hello,

I've got a complex website that uses several domains under one account, each pointing to their own folders in the home directory (not within public_html). Also, if it matters, this is under home2, not home.

Here is an example of the directory layout:

/home2/account/
[folder] admin.domain.com
[folder] domainone.com
[folder] domaintwo.com
[folder] domainthree.com
[folder] public_html
cpbackup-exclude.conf (empty)

I have WHM set up to run backups regularly, and the resulting gz file doesn't contain any of the files from the domains, including the public_html folder. It does have the dnszones for each domain in the dnszones folder. Inside the backup, there is a homedir.tar, but it is zero bytes.

What could be causing this? The other websites are backing up fine.

Also running a backup from within the users cPanel does back up all the files.

Thanks.

 

[Infopro]

What are your setting in WHM > Server Configuration > Basic cPanel & WHM Setup, Basic Config section?

Additional home directories matching the following value will also be used for new home directory creations. (Leaving this value blank disables the feature.) This option only takes one value.

Examples: “home” matches /home, /home2, /newhome, /usr/home, /anythingwith/homeinit

 

[HowdyHost]

/home for first option, home for the second.

It attempts, there is a gz file with other site information, but not any of the public html files.

It is a rather large amount of data, I'm wondering if it simply is bombing out because the server doesn't have enough room for the file. I'll have to check in to that possibility when I have some time to do so.

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello

The primary issue here is the "homedir.tar" file is 0KB. This is the archive that should include the directories in the home directory of the account, such as "public_html". You can try packaging the account manually using the following command:

# /scripts/pkgacct username

Let us know if you see any error messages during this process.

Thank you.

 

[acko]

Hello i have same issue, in log file of backup i found this:


Copying homedir.............

ERROR: tar of homedir returned error 2
/bin/gtar: This does not look like a tar archive
/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Anyone help ?

 

[faisikhan]

Hello i have same issue, in log file of backup i found this:


Copying homedir.............

ERROR: tar of homedir returned error 2
/bin/gtar: This does not look like a tar archive
/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Anyone help ?

Hi acko,

1. Please check the /bin/tar permission which should be 755.
2. Check if the disk has sufficient space or not?
3. It seems that the /bin/tar is corrupt. Try running /scripts/upcp --force and try running the backup again

 

[acko]

Thanks for you reply sir.

Premmisions are 0755, i have done force update but still reciving the same erorr.
Here is my current disk usage print screen:

 

[cPanelMichael]

Hello i have same issue, in log file of backup i found this:


Copying homedir.............

ERROR: tar of homedir returned error 2
/bin/gtar: This does not look like a tar archive
/bin/gtar: Error exit delayed from previous errors

Anyone help ?

Please open a support ticket with our staff so we can check further:

Submit A Ticket

You can post the ticket number here so we may track this issue.

Thank you.

 

[acko]

Thank you sir.
My Request id is: 2112262.

 

[cPanelTristan]

Based on the ticket that was submitted, it appears that /scripts/fixquotas corrected the issue with properly generating backups.