Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_
By default, rsync will only copy new files to the destination and update existing ones, but it does not delete files which are not present in the source unless it receives the --delete parameter. Sounds like you're probably missing that. From: Kirby Sent: Monday, May 6, 2024 17:55 To: backuppc-users@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_ 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/
Re: [BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_
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/
[BackupPC-users] BackupPC remembers _everything_
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/
