I had noticed this a while back, because of a misconfiguration on my part.
However, that brings a thought to mind, a feature request.
I guess the best way to describe it would be a "dry run" restore mode.
Something where I could run a full or partial restore and exercise the
mechanism on the backuppc server, while not actually moving the files. Have
it go through all the motions, including putting a list of files in the
final report.
Thoughts?
--b
On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 11:23 AM, Les Mikesell <lesmikes...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 3/3/2011 9:57 AM, Michael Stowe wrote:
> >> Guys i need your help all, i am relying on backuppc for long time now,
> >> recently someone lost a directory and i started to recover its files
> from
> >> backuppc and i shocked when i found the directories empty, even in the
> >> full backup the directories are empty i am backup using SMB, and there
> is
> >> no errors at all, any ideas?!
> >
> > There are a lot of reasons this can happen with SMB: permissions, open
> > files, moved directories (incrementals), or with later versions of
> > Windows, symbolic links (for example, I'd expect to find "Documents and
> > Settings" empty on Windows 7, since it's just a link to a different
> > directory.)
> >
> > With more information, you might get better guesses, but that's what
> comes
> > to mind.
>
> Be sure you are looking for errors in the logs of the full backup runs.
> The incrementals probably won't mention any files with earlier
> timestamps even if they weren't included in the prior full due to an error.
>
> --
> Les Mikesell
> lesmikes...@gmail.com
>
>
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