Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

[Christian Völker via BackupPC-users]

Hi,

yes, the latest full backup shows files which have been deleted months 
ago. At the time of backing up the client they did not exist on the client!

For testing I did a new "full" backup.
It has the same old files in it :\

So I created a new host (by IP instead of name), copied the 
"macosclient.pl" to "$IP.pl", reloaded backuppc and staarted a new 
backup on the IP-based host. This backup now only has the files which 
really do exists on the client.


Looks like there is something broken in the inventory of the backups of 
this host.

Any better idea instead of simply removeing all backups from this host 
and start a new series?

/KNEBB

Am 14.11.23 um 20:34 schrieb Norman J. Goldstein:
Are you saying that your full backup, 666, contains files that *were* 
not in your local directory at the time of the backup?


On 2023-11-14 11:09, Christian Völker via BackupPC-users wrote:
Hi,

I have BackupPC 4.x running on a Debian system. Works like a champ 
since years now.

One of my clients is an Apple Mac with current up-to-date MacOS. 
rsync is installed:

username@macos Documents % rsync --version
rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
So far it works fine. It does the backupsand all is good. I am 
backing up the Users-Folder as "$RsyncShareName": "/Users/username" 
and excluded some unneeded directories.

See macos.pl:
$Conf{BackupPCNightlyPeriod} = 1;
$Conf{RsyncShareName} = [
   '/Users/username'
];
$Conf{RsyncSshArgs} = [
   '-e',
   '$sshPath -l username'
];
$Conf{BackupFilesExclude} = {
   '/Users/username/.Trash' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Accounts' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Application Support' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Assistant' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Autosave Information' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Biome' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Caches' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Containers' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Cookies' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/CoreFollowUps' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/Group Containers' => [
     ''
   ],
   '/Users/username/Library/HomeKit' => [
     ''
   ]
};
$Conf{RsyncArgs} = [
   '--super',
   '--recursive',
   '--numeric-ids',
   '--perms',
   '--owner',
   '--group',
   '-D',
   '--times',
   '--links',
   '--hard-links',
   '--delete',
   '--delete-excluded',
   '--one-file-system',
   '--partial',
   '--log-format=log: %o %i %B %8U,%8G %9l %f%L',
   '--stats',
   '-z',
   '-v'
];


Now I took a look at BackupPC and was going to the last backup 
(through "Browse backups"). I see the last succesful backup from today.

But when I compare the files in the backup with the ones existing on 
my MacOS there is a hughe difference!
There are so many additional file in the backup which I already 
deleted weeks, if not months ago!
This is the list of the current backups until the last full one:
669 
<http://backuppc41.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=browse&host=cvoelker&num=669> 
	incr 	yes 	1 	2023-11-13 23:17 	72.8 	0.9 	
        



668 
<http://backuppc41.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=browse&host=cvoelker&num=668> 
	incr 	no 	1 	2023-11-12 20:06 	205.0 	2.0 	
        



667 
<http://backuppc41.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=browse&host=cvoelker&num=667> 
	incr 	no 	1 	2023-11-10 23:03 	90.0 	3.9 	
        



666 
<http://backuppc41.knebb.de/backuppc/index.cgi?action=browse&host=cvoelker&num=666> 
	full 	yes 	0 	2023-11-08 23:49 	710.0 	5.8



Checking my local directory I do not see many of the files (As I have 
them deleted months ago!).

Why do I have files in my backupc which do not exist on the backed up 
client?

Thanks for ideas!

/KNEBB







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