We recently set up backuppc to handle our backups. Today, I was upgrading imap on my mail server and for whatever reason, it decided to obliterate my inbox from /var/spool/mail. I'm a bad boy and keep a lot of mail in my inbox, so it's was a fairly hefty file with a few thousand e-mails in it.
I went to BackupPc to restore the file to where it was last night and the file that it has in there only had one message in it!!! (now, note that I had already been ON e-mail this morning prior to this upgrade and know that I still had all my old e-mail at that time, so the e-mails were there when the backup ran last night). Going back to the previous night, that was a very tiny file too. As it turns out, I had to go back about 3 nights before I finally hit a full size file. I checked to see if, possibly, the small files just contained the difference in the files, but that was not the case either. Also, all of the backups in question were incrementals, including the one that had the good file in it. Both the backup server and the mail server are running Linux (Debian Sarge) and I am using rsync to do the backup. Has anyone got any ideas on this? At this point, I'm extremely disturbed by this and finding myself wondering if I am getting good backups or not. Any input would be greatly appreciated. -Ken ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Tame your development challenges with Apache's Geronimo App Server. Download it for free - -and be entered to win a 42" plasma tv or your very own Sony(tm)PSP. Click here to play: http://sourceforge.net/geronimo.php _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
