You are right, jbk is mistaken. It boggles my mind that often people's first reaction to an error is to assume that a stable and well-tested program is fundamentally broken (e.g., doesn't do actual backups but rather just adds and doesn't delete files).
The first, most appropriate, and most humble response should be "what am I doing wrong?" or "why don't I understand how the program works?" I can assure you that in my experience, user error (as is the case here) is the far more likely situation... Paul Fox wrote at about 11:50:17 -0400 on Saturday, July 29, 2023: > jbk wrote: > > BackupPC-4.4.0-9.el9.x86_64 > > > > I see now this is a bigger problem than I thought initially. I thought > > that each backup # was a restore point to the state of the share at the > > time of that backup but instead it is an accumulation of all backups > w/o > > reflecting any of the deletions of files now non existent on the source > > Surely that's not correct. If I do a restore of a specific backup, > I'd expect to get exactly the files that were present when that backup > was run. If I wanted files that had been deleted before that backup > was run, I would understand that I'd need to restore them from a > previous backup. > > If this isn't the case, then I'm... shocked, I guess. > > paul > =---------------------- > paul fox, p...@foxharp.boston.ma.us (arlington, ma, where it's 85.1 degrees) > > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
