Tomasz writes:
> I have Windows hosts, which I backup using rsyncd method.
>
> Each of these hosts have several shares which I want to backup:
>
> $Conf{RsyncShareName} = ['sDrive', 'tDrive', 'uDrive', 'vDrive'];
>
> The problem is, the Windows machine doesn't always have all these drives.
>
> Sometimes, it will be just 'sDrive', 'tDrive', 'uDrive' - that is,
> 'vDrive' will be unavailable. In other words, three drives are there,
> but one drive is temporarily unavailable.
>
> In such case, BackupPC backups three available drives, errors at the
> missing drive, but at the end, the backup is saved as "full" (with only
> three drives out of four).
The backup should be saved as a partial, since a missing share
should be a fatal error.
> This means, that the next full backup will start to copy 'vDrive' (when
> it reappears) completely from scratch - but, we have 'vDrive' already in
> the archive, don't we?
>
> For an internet link, and multi-gigabyte shares this doesn't look that
> optimistic.
>
> Is there a solution for that?
There isn't a good solution for a share that is intermittently present.
BackupPC considers a missing share a fatal backup error.
Craig
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