Wade,
What XferMethod are you using? Does the backup run as root, or as a
non-privileged user? Did the 11:00 backup finish before 15:00?
If you look in the XferLOG file, do you see that the file was backed up?
Similarly for the directory?
Craig
On Fri, Aug 25, 2017 at 10:57 AM, Jenkins, Wade William <wjenk...@utk.edu>
wrote:
> I’m currently standing up a backuppc 4 server, and have a backuppc 3
> server still running, backing up the same systems.
>
>
>
> I have had two instances recently where a user deleted a file at, say
> 15:00 on Tuesday, but when I tried to restore it from a backup than ran at
> 11:00 on the same Tuesday, the file was not there, nor in the 11:00 backup
> from Monday. I’m currently between backuppcs, so I go look at my BackupPC3
> server, and it has the file from a 12:00 backup on Tuesday. Is there a
> reason that a deleted file would not be present in a backup taken *before*
> it was deleted.
>
> In one case (which I’ve misplaced the screen shot of, unfortunately), I
> had a user come in having just deleted the wrong directory. I pulled up
> his files in the backup, but there was no copy of that directory, which he
> had created one week prior (~5 days worth of backups caught this
> directory). In the history view, there was a row for the directory that
> was entirely red, without a single version of the directory or its files.
> BackupPC knew about the directory, but couldn’t give me a copy of it.
>
>
>
> I’m concerned about restores in the future, if BackupPC4 doesn’t actually
> list all the files in a given backup. Can anyone help me understand what’s
> going on?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your help,
>
> Wade
>
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