ejabberd - Comments for "Unable to create a backup"

The fact that ejabberd_ctl

mfoss — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 08:03:17 +0000

The fact that ejabberd_ctl stops for a second leads me think it really tries to do the dump. If you used absolute paths and the file is not created, then you should check ejabberd log files, maybe they include some indicative error report.

If the problem is on ejabberd_ctl, you can still use the web interface to dump the database.

badlop wrote:Maybe the file

vtrac — Wed, 31 May 2006 11:20:29 +0000

badlop wrote:

Maybe the file was created where you don't expect it. Note that you specified a relative path; you should better try /tmp/ejadump.txt for example.

No, I'm certain I've gone through /tmp and have searched through the file system. I've also tried using hard paths.

Re: Unable to create a backup

mfoss — Wed, 17 May 2006 17:24:03 +0000

vtrac wrote:

I've got ejabberd-0.9.8-1 installed and running, but I'm having trouble making database backups. Following the server migration page (http://www.ejabberd.im/migrate-host), I get:

Quote:

jabber1:~/temp# ejabberdctl ejabberd@jabber1 backup ./backup.txt
Usage: ejabberdctl [--node node] command [options]

Available commands:
status get ejabberd status
...

He shows you the help since the command you entered is invalid. Maybe the node name is not required.

vtrac wrote:

Using just 'ejabberdctl backup ./file.txt', it pauses for a second as though something is happening, but no files are actually created.

Maybe the file was created where you don't expect it. Note that you specified a relative path; you should better try /tmp/ejadump.txt for example.