CMS Backup - Message Not Clearing

[PaulMcGunnigle]

My monthly prompt for CMS Backup turned up last week as normal (CMS v8), I ran the cmsadm backup and everything went fine - but the message hasn't cleared.

I have since ran the backup again, in the offchance that it didnt clear it - with no change.

I have then rebooted the server, to no effect.

My last attempt was to 'touch' the backup.success file in /cms/install/logdir/ but this also hasn't made any difference.

The date on the file is now today (14-Oct-03) and my system date is correct.

Has anyone came across this before and know how to clear it?

 

[BIS]

Are you sure it is the adm backup? I am asking because I once had this, and reading the pop up carefully (instead of just clicking it away as we get used to do) revealed that it wasn't referring to the monthly adm, but to a full maintenance backup instead...
Take a look to be sure.

 

[PaulMcGunnigle]

Thanks, thats what it is (wasn't paying attension that it said maint backup).

I'll need to check this, as I haven't touched these backups in ages (the tapes are swapped each night) I'm wondering where abouts in CMS these are schedulded?

 

[marcell55]

The maintenance backups are usually scheduled in timetables. You can not access timetables through Supervisor. You must be at the console, using Emulator, or ASA.

From the Main Menu, select the "F" key for Keep. (I beleive it's F4. Then select Timetables. Hit Control-Z to clear the fields, then type fullBackup in the name field. This should tell you when the backups are scheduled for. Keep in mind, you may also be using incBackup and doing incremental backups during the week, and one full backup at the end of the week.

I would recommend looking at the Error Log (found in Maintenance Reports tab in Supervisor) to see when the backups have failed.

 

[PaulMcGunnigle]

Thats great, thanks BIS & marcell55. Found the problem (backup last week didn't run)!

 

[Esmerelda]

My backup.success file is empty. I'm looking for a way to stop the message that comes out to every supervisor that it's been more than 30 days since the last backup. The only way I can see to prevent it is to do a backup every 29 days. Eventually, I would be in the beginning of the month, and then I would end up doing two backups in the same month. Since I'm calling them "even month" and "odd month" backups, that wouldn't work. In the meantime, my users get that message.

 

[98Converter]

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Clearing CMS 30 day cmsadm/system backup message
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CMS has the annoying habbit of giving every user that log's in, the message that the CMSADM backup has not run for 30 days, rather then sending it to the administrator only,when this has not run.
This often results in unneeded helpdesk calls from users.
To get rid of the message log into CMS as root and then enter the following:

# cd /cms/install/logdir
# touch backup.success

This resets the time stamp on the backup.success file, and will get rid of the messages,until it's really time to do the system backup.


We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. ARISTOTLE 384-322 B.C.

 

[dufus2506]

Hot tip for cms users:

If you use the touch command to get rid of the pesky backup message every month, here's a trick that I use....

instead of:

touch backup.success

use

touch -t YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss backup.success

Where YYYYMMDDhhmm.ss is the year, month, day, hour minute and second you'd like to set the date to.

For example, 202512242359.59 would set the date to Christmas eve in the year 2025.

You won't hear about that annoying backup message for quite some time if you do that.

However, any time you actually complete a real maintenance backup, that will set the date to "today".

Carpe dialem! (Seize the line!)