Yes - but no one has come remotely close to showing that there is a problem with BackupPC pooling and de-duping itself. Unfortunately, it seems like not a single specific file was ever identified as being either unnecessarily duplicated or mistakenly not deleted from the pool.
It's all great to *claim* that you don't think files are being deleted but it's really hard to give any credence to such claim let alone address it if no one is willing and/or able to identify specific errors then can be used to troubleshoot. Rather, the attitude seems to be just delete it all and fault BackupPC. I'm not saying that there can't be errors... just that BackupPC has worked stably for so many for so many years that any claim for unreliability requires further troubleshooting. Christian Völker wrote at about 14:19:43 +0100 on Friday, February 24, 2023: > I agree. > However, I run BackupPC_fsck and BackupPC_refCountUpdate multiple times > and none of these tools fixed the issues. > In the end I had to use BackupPC_delete to remove the faults. Which is, > somehow, a non reliable backup.... > > Just my thoughts. > > Christian > > Am 24.02.23 um 14:08 schrieb G.W. Haywood via BackupPC-users: > > Hi there, > > > > On Fri, 24 Feb 2023, Paul Fox wrote: > > > >> ... > >> Nothing makes me nervous like having someone tell me that my backup > >> strategy, which has been rock solid for almost 20 years, might now > >> have problems. ... > > > > In this thread I don't think I've seen anything to cause that kind of > > concern for anyone who amongst other things checks now and again that > > random backups can be recovered correctly. I do that - most recently > > this morning - and I've never been disappointed. > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
