Back-up doesn't work

[Jeffreybr]

Hi,

i'm making a manual back-up every day of the:
/home
/etc
/var

it's making the back-up untill the end and when the back-up is ready it removes the back-up directly.

if i check the message system, i see this message:

Performing sanity checks: Completed
Checking load average: Completed
Checking free disk space: Completed
Performing Custom backup
Archiving /etc: Completed
Archiving /home: Could not perform md5 checksum, aborting...
Performing cleanup operations: Completed

Why doesn't it work?

[jlasman]

Check to see if md5sum works from the command line. If it doesn't, then you need to install it.

Jeff

[Jeffreybr]

Hi,

i used the commando md5sum, but no action.
what's the package name which should be installed using yum?

Regards

[jlasman]

How did you call it?

If you just call md5sum without anything else, the server will simply go to the next line and stay there until you press Ctrl-C.

Read man md5sum to see how to use it.

md5sum a basic part of the core installation of any Linux/Unix distribution; not even rpmfind knows where to get it in an RPM.

Jeff