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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #15 - Apr 9th, 2011 at 6:15am
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If you prefer the GUI approach and are using the Gnome desktop, you might consider installing "gnome-schedule" or if you prefer KDE (I do), you can use can use the task scheduler located under system > system setting menu. Both work on either desktop, but may already be installed on the one that they were built for.
  
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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #16 - Apr 9th, 2011 at 2:32pm
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Thank you, Gentlemen.

For a sesame server running on Linux (Ubuntu)....

I installed 'scheduled-tasks' from the Gnome install screen and found it simple to add a new task to run each night.

I then used gedit to create a file called 'sesame-backup' with the below code.  It (apparently) paused sesame server, copied all by data files to a folder, then un-paused the server in a blink of an eye. (the -u will copy only CHANGED files.)

Used linux commands to make the file executable.

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/home/steve/sesame/Program/sesame -COMMAND myserver:20020:20021 password SUSPEND
cp -u /home/steve/sesame/data/*.* /home/steve/sesame/data/backups
/home/steve/sesame/Program/sesame -COMMAND myserver:20020:20021 password CONTINUE


Next I'll add a task (or add a line to the batch file) to ftp the backup files to a secure location.

Mark, thanks for all your help. Running sesame on Linux has really put the fun back into sesame. I really appreciate it.

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #17 - Apr 10th, 2011 at 1:43pm
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Mark,

The procedure I used on Linux causes a 'new user' to be connected (myserver) and STAY connected after the backup is finished.

Any way to disconnect just this 'user' after completing the backup? Or make the backup without connecting as a new user?

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #18 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 2:14pm
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Steve_in_Texas wrote on Apr 10th, 2011 at 1:43pm:
Mark,

The procedure I used on Linux causes a 'new user' to be connected (myserver) and STAY connected after the backup is finished.

Any way to disconnect just this 'user' after completing the backup? Or make the backup without connecting as a new user?

Steve



That is a little odd. I just tried the code you posted above and Sesame server doesn't have time to acknowledge the connection. It connects, runs the command, and disconnects completely, without increasing the client count at all. In any case, the "admin" and "command" connections get counted separately from normal client connections and do not add to the client count when checking against the license limit. So, even if you have a full client count, you can still connect as admin or command.
  
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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #19 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 3:29pm
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It sounds like we can 'shrug off' this issue, except that i think the server will not 'gracefully' shut down while these 'admin' users are logged in.

(If i remember correctly, Sesame Server counts down 90 seconds, then gives a Segmentation Fault when trying to stop the server.)

I'll test it again tonight to confirm.

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #20 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 4:30pm
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That's two for two. I don't see the command client using any licenses, never mind staying logged in. And I haven't seen any segmentation faults when shutting down the server.
  
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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #21 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 4:41pm
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I'm referring to the listing of 'clients' on the Notification tab in the admin panel.

After running the backup command, I see my server machine name listed twice, each time I run the backup routine.

When I try to 'Stop This Server' from the servers tab, I get the countdown and the error message.

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #22 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 4:50pm
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FYI, my backup takes about 30 seconds to complete, which is plenty fast for me, but maybe that's just long enough to prevent the 'command client' from disconnecting.
  
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Reply #23 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 4:59pm
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Your backup doesn't start running until after the first command completes, and on my machines - disconnects. You probably don't want this in this case, but on Unix, if you type a "&" at the end of a command line (or line in a shell script), that command line will run as a separate process and give your command prompt back before that process completes.

So basically, these 3 command all run at once:

cp -v -r /etc /home/steve/MyEtc &
ls -lR /home/steve &
tar xvzf sesame.tgz sesame sdesigner /home/steve/Sesame/data
  
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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #24 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 5:20pm
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OK, i'll add the '&' to first two lines and try again tonight.

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #25 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 11:31pm
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I added the '&' but get the same results.

During my backup procedure, the client COUNT on the server GUI does not increase, but MYSERVER name does appear twice in the admin panel's list of connected clients.

When I use the 'shutdown this server' command, i get the countdown. After 90 seconds, sesame shuts down and give this message in the terminal window:

Error: Client connection failed. Client authentication error.
Segmentation fault

without running the backups routine, sesame will gracefully disconnect me from the admin panel and close without the 90 sec. countdown.

Seems like we need a command to disconnect MYSERVER after making the backup?

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #26 - Apr 11th, 2011 at 11:33pm
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And now i see that my aps that were loaded are locked. Sad
  
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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #27 - Apr 12th, 2011 at 12:35pm
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As I said, you really don't want the "&" in this case. I was just letting you know how to do something generally useful. In this case you really want each command to finish before the next starts.
  
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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #28 - Apr 12th, 2011 at 2:34pm
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OK, thanks Mark. I'll revert to my old code, but the results will be the same.

If you can think of a different option that will not have 'shutdown issues', please let me know.

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Re: Sesame Nightly Backup procedure
Reply #29 - Apr 12th, 2011 at 2:49pm
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The script you posted earlier does not issue the shutdown, nor should it. Why are you shutting down the server? I will try again to reproduce the problems you are having, but so far I haven't seen any of them here.
  
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