Claus,
I haven't been able to replicate this behavior with 4.1.1. The full/filled
backup expire code did change between 4.0.0 and 4.1.0.
What version of BackupPC were/are you using?
Craig
On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 10:56 PM, Craig Barratt <
cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net> wrote:
> Claus,
>
> Thanks for the update. Since $Conf{FullKeepCnt} really means the number
> of filled backups to keep (and the most recent backup is always filled), it
> seems like I should make the default value 2, not 1. Or alternatively, not
> count the most recent filled backup.
>
> Craig
>
>
> On Tue, Apr 4, 2017 at 5:39 AM, Claus Tøndering <cl...@tondering.dk>
> wrote:
>
>> After using $Conf{FullKeepCnt}=4 for a couple of days, I believe the
>> problem has been solved.
>>
>> Thank you.
>>
>> /Claus
>>
>>
>>
>> On 03-04-2017 11:22, I wrote:
>>
>> $Conf{FullKeepCnt} = 1;
>> $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} = 1;
>> $Conf{FullAgeMax} = 90;
>>
>> I'll try increasing $Conf{FullKeepCnt} to see if that helps.
>>
>> /Claus
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> *Subject: *Re: [BackupPC-users] Full backups disappear
>> *From: *Craig Barratt <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net>
>> <cbarr...@users.sourceforge.net>
>> *To: *General list for user discussion, questions and support
>> <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> <backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>
>> *Date: *02-04-2017 20:44
>>
>> How many full backups are you keeping (ie, what are $Conf{FullKeepCnt},
>> $Conf{FullAgeMax} and $Conf{FullKeepCntMin} set to)?
>>
>> With 4.x, it is no longer necessary to keep extra full backups around for
>> the incrementals (since filled/non-filled and incremental/full are
>> decoupled), so it's possible those settings were too small.
>>
>> Craig
>>
>> On Sun, Apr 2, 2017 at 5:21 AM, Claus Tøndering <cl...@tondering.dk>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I have recently moved to BackupPC version 4, and strange things now
>>> happen to my full backups.
>>>
>>> I have set
>>> $Conf{FullPeriod} = '60';
>>> which I believe would indicate a full backup every 60 days. However,
>>> instead I get a full backup every other day.
>>>
>>> The "Backup Summary" on the admin page looks like this:
>>>
>>> Backup# Type Filled Level Start Date Duration/mins Age/days Server
>>> Backup Path
>>> 15 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=15> incr no 1 3/20
>>> 20:06 14.0 12.7 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/15
>>> 17 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=17> incr no 1 3/22
>>> 20:05 15.3 10.7 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/17
>>> 19 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=19> incr no 1 3/24
>>> 20:04 12.6 8.7 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/19
>>> 21 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=21> incr no 1 3/27
>>> 20:05 13.3 5.8 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/21
>>> 22 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=22> partial no 0 3/28
>>> 20:00 0.0 4.8 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/22
>>> 25 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=25> incr no 1 4/1
>>> 10:01 12.9 1.2 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/25
>>> 26 <http://kreacher/bpc?action=browse&host=legolas&num=26> full yes 0 4/2
>>> 13:00 62.6 0.1 /var/lib/backuppc/pc/legolas/26
>>>
>>> Except for a problem around backup 22/23 you see this pattern: Backups
>>> 15, 17, 19, 21, 25 (all odd numbers) are incremental; backups 16, 18, 20,
>>> 24 (all even numbers) are missing.
>>>
>>> Backup 26 (an even number) is full. Tomorrow, the list will show backup
>>> 27 being incremental and backup 26 will have disappeared. The day after
>>> tomorrow a new full backup 28 will appear.
>>>
>>> Is this the intended behaviour?
>>>
>>> /Claus
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
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