[Koha] (koha) BACKUP KOHA VIA TOOLS

[Indranil Das Gupta]

That is what it is supposed to do. Check under /var/spool/koha/instance if
files have been created.


On Wed, 10 Mar, 2021, 6:37 pm muiru james, <muirunyeri at gmail.com> wrote:

> Nothing seems to happen on running the command - sudo koha-run-backups
>
> It just returns to the user home path immediately
>
> Regards
> James
>
>
> On Wed, Mar 10, 2021 at 3:11 PM Indranil Das Gupta <indradg at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Ummm... could be a permissions issue. Try to run the command:
>>
>> sudo koha-run-backups
>>
>> from the terminal and see if it works.
>>
>> On Wed, 10 Mar, 2021, 5:23 pm muiru james, <muirunyeri at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> > Hi
>> >
>> > The config file is enabled.
>> >
>> > Could it be that the installation was not done as root? Because when I
>> > tried opening the config file using leafpad, I got a warning that the
>> file
>> > is not owned by root.
>> >
>> > Regards
>> > James
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> >
>> > On Wed, 10 Mar 2021, 11:41 Indranil Das Gupta, <indradg at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> >> The option to download the database from the Tools menu depends on two
>> >> things:
>> >>
>> >> a) the koha-run-backups script needs to run via the daily cron job to
>> >> generate the file under /var/spool/koha/<instance>
>> >>
>> >> b) the relevant config option needs to be enabled in koha-conf.xml
>> >>
>> >> You need to check if a) koha-run-backups is actually generating the
>> backup
>> >> by ruining it manually from the command line, b) check if the cron job
>> is
>> >> running correctly.
>> >>
>> >> Hope this helps
>> >> Indranil Das Gupta
>> >> L2C2 Technologies.
>> >>
>> >> On Wed, 10 Mar, 2021, 1:49 pm muiru james, <muirunyeri at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> > Hello team,
>> >> >
>> >> > I have a system that has no backups to download at the export data,
>> >> backups
>> >> > in the tools module. The config file is well edited to allow for the
>> >> > backups via tools.
>> >> >
>> >> > What could be the problem?
>> >> >
>> >> > Koha version is 19.05
>> >> > Ubuntu 16.04
>> >> >
>> >> > Please help
>> >> >
>> >> > Warm Regards
>> >> > James
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