Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-26 Thread Christian Völker via BackupPC-users
Thanks again! Again, I do not know why this changed. Removed the entry on the host and let the default settings settle in. Thanks! /KNEBB Am 26.11.23 um 13:51 schrieb jbk: On 11/26/23 05:30, Christian Völker wrote: > Hi, > > thanks for pointins this out. I do not remember having set this

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-26 Thread jbk
On 11/26/23 05:30, Christian Völker wrote: Hi, > > thanks for pointins this out. I do not remember having set this > manually on all hosts. It was set globally anyways so I removed these > entries from all clients. > > And I have only a username for this single host (as it is MacOS and >

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-26 Thread Christian Völker via BackupPC-users
Hi, thanks for pointins this out. I do not remember having set this manually on all hosts. It was set globally anyways so I removed these entries from all clients. And I have only a username for this single host (as it is MacOS and does not know "root" as the others do). Meanwhile I have

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-24 Thread jbk
On 11/14/23 14:09, Christian Völker 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-24 Thread jbk
On 11/15/23 05:26, Christian Völker wrote: 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-15 Thread Dave Sherohman via BackupPC-users
Beyond the safety precaution you mentioned, rsync doesn't delete files at all unless your RsyncArgs include "--delete".  There have been a few previous people mailing the list who didn't have --delete in there, so I wonder whether that might be the problem here. On 11/15/23 12:42, Guillermo

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-15 Thread Guillermo Rozas
> > For testing I did a new "full" backup. > It has the same old files in it :\ > If you check the full log of that backup, does it shows any error or anything suspicious? I had that kind of things happen sporadically when there is a reading error on the client side, and rsync disables deletions

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-15 Thread 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

Re: [BackupPC-users] Outdated Files in Backup?

2023-11-14 Thread 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