Duplicity Concurrent Backup error

NethServer Version: 7.2003
Module: Backup

Hey Nethserver Community!

I’m having an issue with my Duplicity backups. They are failing every day with the message that a concurrent backup is in progress.
The log doesn’t really go into any further details so I’m wondering if I’m looking at the right logs.

This server has been in-place upgraded from the previous release (19xx) and I’m wondering if the previous backup configured in the old management interface is interferring with it (I’m using cockpit now).

Any help on where to start looking (log wise) to start finding the issues?

So the log is set on Cockpit to backup to a CIFS share every day at 06:00. Access to the share isn’t an issue and I’ve tried killing any duplicity processes and clearing the lockfile in /var/local/…

Thanks again

UPDATE
So I logged into the old management interface and confirmed that there were no backups configured. I also had a loog at the logviewer in there and noticed this:

Backup: backup-acm-data
Backup started at
2020-07-22 06:00:02
Pre backup scripts status: SUCCESS
--------------[ Backup Statistics ]--------------
StartTime 1595412009.83 (Wed Jul 22 06:00:09 2020)
EndTime 1595412124.61 (Wed Jul 22 06:02:04 2020)
ElapsedTime 114.78 (1 minute 54.78 seconds)
SourceFiles 155066
SourceFileSize 20199870269 (18.8 GB)
NewFiles 388
NewFileSize 35391190 (33.8 MB)
DeletedFiles 127
ChangedFiles 178
ChangedFileSize 85166552 (81.2 MB)
ChangedDeltaSize 0 (0 bytes)
DeltaEntries 693
RawDeltaSize 31231628 (29.8 MB)
TotalDestinationSizeChange 12502995 (11.9 MB)
Errors 0

Local and Remote metadata are synchronized, no sync needed.
Last full backup date: Mon Jul 20 23:22:39 2020
No old backup sets found, nothing deleted.
Action ‘backup-data-duplicity backup-acm-data’: SUCCESS
Post backup scripts status: SUCCESS
Backup status: SUCCESS
Backup ended at 2020-07-22 06:02:28
Time elapsed: 0 hours, 2 minutes, 26 seconds

Disk Usage:
Size Used Available Use%
1.76 TB 332.32 GB 1.44 TB 18.4%

Soooooo. My backup is actually working? So where is the duplicate then?

Please check the backups db, maybe there’s a “hidden” backup:

db backups show

Okay, so I checked the DB. There was another backup in there but it was disabled. I removed it anyways.

At this point in time it seems like the error has cleared itself up (Prior to removing the disabled job) as I haven’t received any more emails claiming that the backup failed (and the logs show successes).

So thanks for the help :slight_smile:.

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