Chris, > I've ended up with one backup whose files show as mangled (i.e. preceeded > with "f") in the web interface. > > I'm guessing this happened because the full backup didn't complete and was > saved as a "partial", and I changed the "partial" to "full" in the > pc/hostname/backups file to "full" before the linking was finished. (I've > done this before to force an incremental over that "full" instead of > another long full, and it's worked OK). > > In any case, is there a way to get this unmangled? Looks like restores > won't work in the current state.
Changing "partial" to "full" isn't a good idea. You are really breaking the integrity of your backups. I suspect when you edited the backups file you didn't preserve tabs and made some other editing error and the "mangle" flag (which should be set) is now set to 0. You need to very carefully compare two consecutive lines in the file. All white space should be tabs. Get your editor to display tabs (or ":l" in vi) or use od -c to really be sure. Craig ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2005. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
