Hi there,

On Fri, 4 Nov 2022, Mark Murawski wrote:

...
This is the most recently finished full backup [51] for /etc/ssl/private
...
There's no files in there!! Just directories!? Everything is missing

And it looks like the *entire* backup system looks like this.? I didn't
even know that my backups are completely broken and missing all files.

Trying to sut through all the emotion, if I'm reading your posts
correctly your backup system has, since the time when you started
using BackupPC, performed 51 full backups plus I'd guess quite a lot
more incrementals.  Obviously it all depends on your configuration,
but you didn't show us any of that.

Guessing that your full backups aren't being run more often than about
daily - and a lot of mine only run monthly - it seems to me likely that

(1) your backup system has been running for at least several weeks,

and

(2) this is the first time you've tested a backup.

If my deductions are correct, I'd be inclined to say you should take
your backups more seriously.  And please don't be so defensive when
people try to help, even if they're perhaps understandably impatient
with posters who haven't done their homework.  Humility works a lot
better than escalation.  Bear in mind that some people will probably
just ignore argumentative posters, and you could be cutting yourself
off from a great deal of valuable experience that way.

Incidentally I'm not sure that I'd want the 'backuppc' user to be able
to read private data normally only readable by root, but it's your call
and it might even be that you have it set up that way - I don't know.
FTAOD I'm just trying to help.

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73,
Ged.


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