BackupPC does not pick up where a 'partial' transfer left off in many cases. I don't fully understand the mechanism (tho it is somewhat explained here: http://osdir.com/ml/sysutils.backup.backuppc.general/2004-08/msg00013.html ); but the result is that perfectly good files are deleted from the partial backup.
This is completely non-intuitive, if one is familiar with the way rsync works. One would expect subsequent partial backups to keep transferring new files, instead of deleting perfectly good files. I've also just tried this with tar under BackupPC 3.0.0, and the behavior is still there. I know this is an old issue, but it's bitten me a few times, and recently caused me to lose an entire weekend's worth of backup data transfer; so I'd like to re-iterate a desire to have this bug fixed. Can we at least put in a minor code change to not trash files from a partial backup? -- Carl Soderstrom Systems Administrator Real-Time Enterprises www.real-time.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
