Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-02 Thread Michael Martinek
VSS is at most a local backup.. and that’s kind of stretching it. VSS is more of a way to access a version of files without exclusivity issues. You might be conflating VSS with a restore point, as restore points are more of a backup than VSS. At any rate, if the drive dies or is stolen, it won’t

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-02 Thread Les Mikesell
On Sat, Jan 2, 2021 at 1:37 PM wrote: > > Well, this basically reinforced my hate for Windows. I killed the backup; > and that’s left my C drive inaccessible, even to recovery processes.So, > I’m reinstalling Windows; with the pain that entails. That doesn't make any sense for anything rs

[BackupPC-users] --delete option does not work

2021-01-02 Thread Mickemoris
--delete option does not work Hi. I added options to backuppc    RsyncRestoreArgs --delete  I have an error when trying to restore a backup: 2021-01-02 20:13:21 cleaning up after signal PIPE 2021-01-02 20:13:24 restore failed (aborted by signal=PIPE) Without this option, backups and restor

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows (rsyncd) Backup issues

2021-01-02 Thread clayj
Well, this basically reinforced my hate for Windows. I killed the backup; and that’s left my C drive inaccessible, even to recovery processes.So, I’m reinstalling Windows; with the pain that entails. I DO have a partial backup that I’m kinda hoping will be useful; but, this is a real p