Nagios xi unable to create scheduled local auto backup.

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rupesh_arora_tmna
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Nagios xi unable to create scheduled local auto backup.

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Nagios xi unable to create auto backup "The directory is likely not writeable by user 'nagios' or group 'nagios' - check permissions."

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ls -ld /store/backups/
drwxrwxr-x. 4 nagios nagios 33 Feb 12  2016 /store/backups/

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 ls -l /store/backups/
total 0
drwxr-xr-x. 5 root   root   45 Mar 22 07:02 mysql
drwxrwxr-x. 2 nagios nagios  6 Feb 12  2016 nagiosxi
While mysql backup is running.

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 du -sh *
11G     mysql
0       nagiosxi
If, I change the directory to /tmp/ then it says The directory exists and is writeable.
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Re: Nagios xi unable to create scheduled local auto backup.

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What's the output from the following commands?

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ls -ld /store
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rupesh_arora_tmna
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Re: Nagios xi unable to create scheduled local auto backup.

Post by rupesh_arora_tmna »

Here is the output.

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ls -ld /store
drwxr-xr-x. 3 root root 20 Feb 12  2016 /store
FYI in my newer version of Nagios it's able to do, with same permission.
Also tried change 0777 with owner nagios recursively over whole directory still not working.
But working with /tmp directory.

Any suggestions?
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dchurch
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Re: Nagios xi unable to create scheduled local auto backup.

Post by dchurch »

So I did some digging and apparently the code that indicates whether a directory is suitable to accept the automated backup -- has bugs. As such, whether the directory will actually work for backups has little or nothing to do with what the user interface will show you when selecting a backup directory.

Really, a more suitable check would be to just plug in the directory into the command line:

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sudo -u nagios [ -w "/path/to/directory" ]
Where you plug in the directory name in place of /path/to/directory.

Long story short, if you run that command to check your backup directory, you can safely ignore what the web interface says.
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