David writes:

> More fun and games with beta2...
> 
> It's generating incomplete backups.  After running a full backup, I
> looked at the file counts and saw that the most recent backup has
> approx 130,000 files when my hard drive has approx 2,000,000 files.
> 
> Doing a spot check in BackupPC's archive of my home directory and I
> noticed that my email directory, i.e. /home/relson/Mail (full path
> /var/archive/pc/osage/63/f%2f/fhome/frelson/...), isn't present.
> Checking further, my home directory has 104 entries (files and
> directories) while .../fhome/frelson only has 38.  The counts were
> generated by Command "ls -lad * | wc -l".
> 
> The beginning of XferLog.63.z reads:
> 
> full backup started for directory / (baseline backup #62)
> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root osage /usr/bin/rsync --server
> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / Xfer PIDs are
> now 3265 Got remote protocol 29 Negotiated protocol version 28
> Sent exclude: /dev
> Sent exclude: /media
> Sent exclude: /mnt
> Sent exclude: /proc
> Sent exclude: /sys
> Sent exclude: /tmp
> Sent exclude: /usr/portage/distfiles
> Xfer PIDs are now 3265,3302
> 
> When I use the web interface to look at backup #63, it shows the same
> 38 files/directories as when I look in /var/archive/.../frelson.
> 
> Looking at the "Directory backup history" for home/relson, I find
> "Mail" in backups 52 through 56 (Oct 29 to Nov 13), which are 2.1.2
> backups, but not in 57 to 63 (Nov 24 to Nov 25) which are 3.0.0_beta2
> backups.
> 
> 'Tis possible, perhaps likely, that my experimentation to properly set
> up 3.0.0 still hasn't achieved success.  What additional information
> do you need?  Copies of the config files, logs, etc are available.

Let's take this off list.  First, do the files appear in the XferLOG?
I would be interested in seeing the latest (full) XferLOG, your main
config.pl and per-host config.pl.  Plus, a full backup with XferLogLevel
set to 4 would be helpful.

> I know I've been reporting lots of problems with beta2 but I must say
> I like its new features!

Thanks for being a thorough beta tester...

Craig

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