Hello! Short summary: it seems that whenever the file is dropped from phase 0 of a rsyncd backup and retried in phase 1 the file does *not* show up in the GUI. However, the file *is* actually stored in the proper pc/<server/<path>/ directory.
Long description: I had to restore a file today. The file is a backup of an Exchange 2003 datastore that is created by NTBACKUP running on the Exchange server. This file, therefore, changes every day, and is ~20GB big. The server is then backed up using rsyncd to the BackupPC server. It seems that there is approximately a 50% chance that I'm going to see something like this in the log file for the BackupPC backup of this machine: BAK/ExchangeDataStore/ExchangeData.bkf: md4 doesn't match: will retry in phase 1; file removed From my understanding, this is a normal byproduct of the way rsync transfers files: due to hashing issues, the file will be removed from phase 0, but will be retried in the more exhaustive phase 1. This seems to be demonstrated in the log for such a backup. At the very end of the log I see this: create 700 4294967295/401 21050720256 BAK/ExchangeDataStore/ExchangeData.bkf Which seems to me to mean that the file was indeed backed up properly. So far, so good. However, here's what the GUI looks like for that file in the history of the BAK/ExchangeDataStore directory: History of D/BAK/ExchangeDataStore Backup number 27 47 59 73 87 101 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 Backup time 9/19 20:00 10/26 02:00 11/20 15:09 12/4 20:00 12/18 20:00 1/1 20:00 1/7 20:00 1/8 20:00 1/9 20:00 1/10 20:00 1/11 20:00 1/12 20:00 1/13 20:00 ExchangeData.bkf v0 v1 v2 v3 v4 v5 v6 v7 The formatting is near useless, but notice this: there are 14 backups represented on that screen (between 27 and 113), but only *7* versions of the file in the history. From checking the logs, it seems that whenever the file is retried in phase 1 the file does *not* show up in the GUI. However, if I go to the actual backuppc pc/<server>/<path> directory, the file *is* actually in the proper directory. Is this a bug in the BackupPC GUI? Or am I missing something? Tim Massey ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
