That shouldn't of course happen -- though you did violate the first rule of backups which is to *test* them so they are there and working when you need them 😊 You would need to tell us a lot more details if you want help. My guess given the lack of any other diagnostic information is that perhaps you changed the rsync parameters?
Kirby wrote at about 11:55:16 -0400 on Monday, May 6, 2024: > BackupPC has been covering up my stupid mistakes since 2005. > Fortunately, I have never done the 'rm -r *' until last week. Good thing > was that I was in my home directory so the system itself was untouched > and I caught myself before too much could get deleted. > > 'Not a problem!' I thought. I will just restore from last night's backup > and be on my way. I selecting the missing files and directories, started > the restore, and went for a walk. When I got back things were in a sorry > state. My ~/Downloads directory was has filled up my drive included > stuff that had been deleted 5 years ago. > > Am I misunderstanding how fill works? I though it was filled from the > last backup going back to the last non-filled backup. Instead it looks > like it is pulling everything it has ever backed up. > > I am running BackupPC-4.4.0-1.el8.x86_64. > > Thank you. > > > _______________________________________________ > 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/
