Bachir writes:
> My goal is simpel: When restoring a fileset for a specified date
> (including "most recent"), BackupPC should give me exactly the files
> and directories that existed at the time of the last backup prior to
> that date.
>
> According to my several tests this doesn't works even if the last
> backup was a Full backup. Files and directories crated after a backup
> (full or incremental) will NOT be deleted during a restoration.
Right. Holger explained this well.
First, the tar and smb XferMethods don't support delete. More
importantly I don't like the idea of a restore deleting files on
the client. Restores are often done at a time of high stress and
you don't want irreversible things done (I concede that a restore
will overwrite files, but that's kind of the point isn't it?).
You can restore to a new directory and rename.
> To avoid this problem i tried to add "--delete" to
> $Conf{RsyncRestoreArgs} but the restoration failed with the following
> error:
>
> "
> Remote[1]: ERROR: buffer overflow in recv_rules [receiver]
> Remote[1]: rsync error: error allocating core memory buffers (code 22)
> at util.c(121) [receiver=2.6.9]
> Read EOF: Connection reset by peer
> Tried again: got 0 bytes
> Done: 301 files, 6183643 bytes
> restore failed: Unable to read 4 bytes
> "
>
> I guess this mean that rsyncp doesn't support the "--delete" option.
Right.
Craig
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