# Backups of most servers stopped spontaneously **URL:** \ **Category:** Virtualmin\ **Created:** [October 23, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713 "2010-10-23T12:16:40Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![mnt\_schred](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@mnt\_schred](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/mnt_schred)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 12:16pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/1 "2010-10-23T12:16:40Z")
I’ve noticed a few days ago the date of my backups were fixated. Turns out most of my virtualmin based webservers stopped making backups (!). I’ve tried running one manually and got this funky error: Starting backup of 244 domains to /mnt/raid/5primary/backup/incremental/f on FTP server [myserver.com](http://myserver.com) HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2010 12:18:22 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection: close Error - Perl execution failed Undefined subroutine &virtual\_server::ftp\_onecommand called at /usr/libexec/webmin/virtual-server/backups-lib.pl line 224. Approximately six servers got this issue overnight- anyone know why? ---
**Author:** ![Eric](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/898d66/32.png) [@Eric](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/Eric)\ **Post date:** [October 23, 2010, 3:23pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/2 "2010-10-23T15:23:57Z")
Hrm, that’s an odd one! What distro/version are you using? And what Virtualmin version do you have installed there? Also, if you log into Virtualmin and poke around a bit, does it seem to be working okay? Or are you getting sporadic 500 Errors for other tasks as well? Lastly, does anything of interest show up in /var/webmin/miniserv.error? -Eric ---
**Author:** ![mnt\_schred](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@mnt\_schred](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/mnt_schred)\ **Post date:** [November 1, 2010, 10:55pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/3 "2010-11-01T22:55:10Z")
let’s see: For example this server: SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (i586) VERSION = 10 PATCHLEVEL = 2 virtualmin is working as normal. I haven’t seen any other 500 errors. only error in miniserv.error: [01/Nov/2010:23:55:21 +0200] [62.195.52.159] /virtual-server/backup.cgi/backup.tgz : Perl execution failed : Undefined subroutine &virtual\_server::ftp\_onecommand called at /usr/libexec/webmin/virtual-server/backups-lib.pl line 224. ---
**Author:** ![netline](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/n/d78d45/32.png) [@netline](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/netline)\ **Post date:** [November 2, 2010, 5:46pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/4 "2010-11-02T17:46:40Z")
hello from belgium i confirm exactly the same error message here and same behavior with Redhat Linux Fedora 12 Webmin version 1.520 Virtualmin version 3.81.gpl GPL Theme version 7.8 on openvz Kernel and CPU Linux 2.6.32-3-pve on x86\_64 it’s a change which occurs during a module upgrade between oct 7 and 14 after 5 years of successful backups miniserverror says 193.200.60.241 - root [02/Nov/2010:18:25:12 +0200] “GET /virtual-server/backup\_form.cgi?oneoff=1 HTTP/1.1” 200 23355 193.200.60.241 - root [02/Nov/2010:18:25:22 +0200] “POST /virtual-server/backup.cgi/backup.tgz HTTP/1.1” 500 174 Starting backup of 62 domains to /. on FTP server barbie … HTTP/1.0 500 Perl execution failed Server: MiniServ/0.01 Date: Tue, 2 Nov 2010 17:45:21 GMT Content-type: text/html Connection: close Error - Perl execution failed Undefined subroutine &virtual\_server::ftp\_onecommand called at /usr/libexec/webmin/virtual-server/backups-lib.pl line 224. no other 500 errors ---
**Author:** ![mnt\_schred](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@mnt\_schred](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/mnt_schred)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2010, 4:33pm UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/5 "2010-11-05T16:33:16Z")
My servers haven’t made any backups now for over a month. line 224 of /usr/libexec/webmin/virtual-server/backups-lib.pl : &ftp\_onecommand($server, “PWD”, $ftperr, $user, $pass, $port); apperantly this comand fails to execute. Has this anything to do with Perl? ---
**Author:** ![mnt\_schred](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/m/ee59a6/32.png) [@mnt\_schred](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/mnt_schred)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2010, 11:25am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/6 "2010-11-08T11:25:23Z")
backups have started to work spontaniously. So apparently an update fixed the problem… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://cdn.forum.virtualmin.com/uploads/default/original/2X/c/cd96d761e326db4b2bef94886a639109bd7a8e76.svg) [@system](https://forum.virtualmin.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2020, 5:50am UTC](https://forum.virtualmin.com/t/backups-of-most-servers-stopped-spontaneously/37713/7 "2020-04-30T05:50:12Z")
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