Hi there, On Fri, 5 May 2023, gregrwm wrote:
i'm curious ...
Me too. :) I'm replying largely because nobody else did so far, not because I think I have any brilliant insights or anything. Sorry.
full backup started for directory /; updating partial #1
This is what I'm curious about. You seem to be updating a failed backup. Does that sound right? If so, I'd expect to see things that I wouldn't see when creating a fresh backup. I don't know what things because I don't remember that I ever updated a failed backup. I don't remember running BackupPC_dump from the command line like you're doing either, I guess I must have in the distant past but it would only ever have been out of curiosity. Seems to me to be a lot safer to let the backup system do what it's supposed to do by itself. There's a lot of time and date stuff goes on that I can't be bothered to think about.
do they mean the backed-up copies were removed? because they no longer match the "original" file?
I can't comment, I no longer keep the V3 code lying around. The message that's spooking you doesn't seem to be in the V4 code. I had a quick look for anything which might resemble the same thing but it was very quick and I wasn't amazed when I didn't get any results.
if so, umm..!! heck, isn't that one of the times when backups are sorely wanted? when the original flakes or fades and no longer has a valid copy of the file?
I think you may be misinterpreting message, or jumping to unwarranted conclusions, or possibly both. In any case I guess if you only have one aged backup something like that might be thought of as an issue, but if you have the two dozen or so I keep it's less of a worry. :) Have you actually verified that something you're fond of has been lost?
maybe that's a bug fixed in backuppc4?
I think it's too early to talk about bugs, or fixing them. We need to establish what's going on in your system first. Have you actually got at least one of what you consider to be a *complete* full backup? And have you also got a bunch of completed incremental backups? Have you any reason to believe that the 'complete' backups are not complete? My take on it is that you let the backup system run for a while, and then you exercise it. Gratuitously recover a file or three at random. When you need to copy a file, copy it from the backup rather than from the running filesystem, just for the hell of it, and check it against the original. Whenever I've done this I've never had a problem. Anyway after all that, version 4.0.0alpha of BackupPC was released ten years ago next month. V4 offers advantages over V3. Just sayin'... -- 73, Ged. _______________________________________________ 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/
