Hi Esteban, A: Because it confuses the reader. Q: Why? A: No. Q: Should I write my response above the quoted reply?
..so please quote properly, as I'm doing in the rest of this mail: On Jun 03 2019, Esteban Fonseca <[email protected]> wrote: >> It seems that something went wrong when you unmounted the filesystem, >> and you're now trying to recover without having access to the local >> cache holding the most recent metadata (normally ~/.s3ql). Without this >> directory, your data is gone. > > How can I prevent loosing this folder, or how could I recover the backup > data if for some reason my system crashes and I cannot recover it ? should > I run > > # s3qlctrl upload-meta > > after my backups ? I'm running daily backups with jetbackup on cpanel, on > my AWS instances to S3 buckets. Yes, if you keep the filesystem permanently mounted then running s3qlctrl after a backup would be a good idea. If you unmount, this happens automatically. Note also that mount.s3ql automatically does this periodically, by default every 24h. Best, Nikolaus -- GPG Fingerprint: ED31 791B 2C5C 1613 AF38 8B8A D113 FCAC 3C4E 599F »Time flies like an arrow, fruit flies like a Banana.« -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "s3ql" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/s3ql/874l55pjov.fsf%40vostro.rath.org. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
