Re: [BackupPC-users] backup Windows10 clients

2020-10-26 Thread Kent Tenney
That did it. Could have sworn I'd tried that ... evidently not! (in my little head /cygdrive implied a full cygwin install) Thanks, Kent On Thu, Oct 22, 2020 at 7:31 PM Michael Huntley wrote: > Try /cygdrive/c/users/ktenny > > Cheers! > > On Oct 22, 2020, at 4:47 PM, Kent Tenney wrote: > > 

[BackupPC-users] Incomplete backups?

2020-10-26 Thread David Hoskinson
I am building a new backuppc server to replace a aging one that someone else setup. The old one is 3.31 and i am using the latest 4.4.0. I have it making backups but they seem extremely small since many of the backups are around a terabyte in size. I noticed this as i was comparing a smaller

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incomplete backups?

2020-10-26 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
This is normal. In 4.x just an attrib file captures all the information about which files are in that directory, with all their metadata (size, modes, links, xattrs etc). As you note, the file is actually empty and all that matters is the md5 digest in its name. That refers to the actual attribut

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incomplete backups?

2020-10-26 Thread David Hoskinson
Wow thats a relief, i thought it wasn't working without seeing any errors. By the way my issues with rsync_bpc are solved, it all seems to be working now. Thank you for your help. Ok so that brings up another question. We have a synology boxes that we use to take offsite. In the past we did a

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incomplete backups?

2020-10-26 Thread backuppc
Hi Craig, Every time people ask about referencing file contents or their attribs, I can't help but think how the backuppc-fuse is such an underutilized asset. That utility makes it so easy and natural to browse backups using built-in file system commands -- whether via CLI or GUI. As a wish-list,

Re: [BackupPC-users] Wrong info in bpc->BackupInfoRead ?

2020-10-26 Thread Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users
Ghislain, This looks like a bug. It seems that $Conf{DumpPostUserCmd} is run before the backups file is re-written with the new backup information. Before that there is just a placeholder for the new backup. You could see if you can fix it by moving the $Conf{UserCmdCheckStatus} run in bin/Backu