[rhel - user] backup error message in mail

[Constance Morris]

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From: redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:redhat-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of m.roth at 5-cent.us
Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2013 9:52 AM
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Subject: Re: [rhel - user] backup error message in mail

Hi, Constance,

Constance   Morris wrote:
>
> Has anyone ever received the following 2 types of backup error 
> messages in their linux mail:
>
> 1.)
>
> tar: Error exit delayed from previous errors Backup complete...taking 
> CP out of hot backup mode at: Tue May 7 02:54:20

This one reminds me of when either a) the filesystem's full, or b) trying to back up something that shouldn't be backed up, like /dev/<anything>...
or maybe the tarfile it's creating, itself. You might try running it manually, and see what happens.

<snip>
> 2.)
>
>>From user at portal.domain.edu  Tue Apr 30 05:55:13 2013
> Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2013 05:55:12 -0400
> From: user at portal.domain.edu (Cron Daemon)
> To: user at portal.domain.edu
> Subject: Cron <user at portal> /opt/luminis/bin/hotbackoff
> X-Cron-Env: <SHELL=/bin/sh>
> X-Cron-Env: <HOME=/home/user>
> X-Cron-Env: <PATH=/usr/bin:/bin>
> X-Cron-Env: <LOGNAME=user>
> X-Cron-Env: <USER=user>
> System hot backup state has been set to off.
>
> I've never seen these before. Any suggestions?

This clearly has to do with some software that I'm not familiar with, or you've got a mirror site, and there's some issue with the mirror.

       mark
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Afternoon Mark,
On #1. Could any of those things (filesystem file, etc.) cause the system not to boot back up when it goes down for backups?
Forgive my ignorance - is there a system-wide command for running it manually? 
I did not setup the backups and am not sure how to do that.

Thank you,
Constance