Hi I'm hoping someone can help me figure out what I've done and/or where
my expectations are wrong.
Bit of background: I've found some old disks that belonged to a BackupPC
pool, which contained amongst other things copies of some coding
projects I thought I'd lost the source for many years ago. I've copied
them into my existing backuppc pool, along with the relevant pc
directories and configurations, so I can access them.
I've started restoring some of the file to a directory onto my current
machine, using a direct restore. I was expecting to be able to restore
the files, rescue what I needed and delete the original 'pc' from
BackupPC without having much impact on the pool since all of the files
are already in there, so interim backups of my current machine should
just create new links to the files I've recovered via BackupPC's restore
feature. However, when the next backup of my current machine happened
only about 50% of the files were found as 'existing files', the other
50% came out as 'new files' (and now my pool disk is 95% full as nearly
200GB of data that should already be in the pool has been duplicated).
This is where I'm confused: Why would files restored directly from
BackupPC and not subsequently touched in any way (not even viewed or
moved/renamed) not be found as existing files in the pool? Compression
was turned on for both pools (the original and the new one).
Any ideas?
Thanks,
Laurence
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net
List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
