I added the path and job still fails
2018-07-27 21:08:39,756 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: The location provided: 10.2.8.23:21/FTPSVCSA
2018-07-27 21:08:40,009 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Starting backup job...
2018-07-27 21:08:51,621 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: The backup dir does not exist
2018-07-27 21:09:01,638 [MainProcess:PID-17647] ERROR: BackupManager encountered an exception: Failed to create FTP dir 'ftp://10.2.8.23:21/FTPSVCSA/' at 'ftp://10.2.8.23:21/FTPSVCSA/'; ret=28
stdOut:
stdErr: curl: (28) Connection time-out
2018-07-27 21:09:01,665 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up the failed backup job.
2018-07-27 21:09:01,666 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up all running backup child processes.
2018-07-27 21:09:01,738 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up all sizeFiles.
2018-07-27 21:09:01,739 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up ConfigFiles.
2018-07-27 21:09:01,739 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up Lotus.
2018-07-27 21:09:01,739 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up Vmdir. Running /usr/lib/vmware-vmdir/bin/vdcbackup -c
2018-07-27 21:09:02,899 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: stdout: Cleanup: Setting vmdir state to VMDIRD_NORMAL
2018-07-27 21:09:02,900 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up VCDB.
2018-07-27 21:09:02,900 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Finishing full database backup
2018-07-27 21:09:02,901 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Retrieving postgres server listening port
2018-07-27 21:09:02,901 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Executing command: netstat -plnt.
2018-07-27 21:09:03,031 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Canceling running pg_start_backup() process.
2018-07-27 21:09:03,032 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Executing command: ['/opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql', '-U', 'postgres', '-p', '5432', '-At', '-c', "SELECT pg_cancel_backend(pid) FROM pg_stat_activity WHERE pid <> pg_backend_pid() and query ~ '^select\\ pg\\_xlogfile\\_name\\(pg\\_start\\_backup\\(.*\\)\\)\\;' "].
2018-07-27 21:09:03,553 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: No pg_start_backup() process is running.
2018-07-27 21:09:03,553 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Checking whether Postgres online backup still in progress
2018-07-27 21:09:03,554 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Executing command: /opt/vmware/vpostgres/current/bin/psql -U postgres -p 5432 -t -c "select pg_is_in_backup();".
2018-07-27 21:09:03,584 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Postgres on-line backup already finished. Skip stopping backup operation
2018-07-27 21:09:03,584 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Successfully cleaned up for VCDB backup.
2018-07-27 21:09:03,584 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up ComponentScripts.
2018-07-27 21:09:03,585 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up StatsMonitorDB.
2018-07-27 21:09:03,585 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Cleaning up failed backup files.
2018-07-27 21:09:13,603 [MainProcess:PID-17647] WARNING: Ignore to clean up failed backup files, due to issue: 'Failed to list FTP dir with cmd ['curl', '--fail', '-u', u'vcsauser:****', '--connect-timeout', '10', '--ssl-reqd', '-k', '--silent', '--show-error', '--list-only', u'ftp://10.2.8.23:21/FTPSVCSA/']; ret=28
stdOut:
stdErr: curl: (28) Connection time-out
'.
2018-07-27 21:09:13,604 [MainProcess:PID-17647] ERROR: Failed to cleanup the backup job. Error: Failed to clean up the backup job.
2018-07-27 21:09:13,633 [MainProcess:PID-17647] INFO: Backup job failed.