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Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't browse backup directory

2010-06-06 11:36:06
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Can't browse backup directory
From: Gerald Brandt <gbr AT majentis DOT com>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2010 10:42:46 -0500 (CDT)
Okay, I figured it out.  My new backups were incrementals based off a different root.

ie: my old backups did /cygdrive/c,  /cygdrive/h and /cygdrive/j.  My new backups did /cygdrive/c/shadow/.  BackupPC gotr confused.  As soon as my Friday fulls came by, it all worked again.

Gerald

----- "Gerald Brandt" <gbr AT majentis DOT com> wrote:
>
> Could this be because I delete the directories on the Windows machine in a post backup script (DumpPostUserCmd)?
>
> Gerald
>
> ----- "Gerald Brandt" <gbr AT majentis DOT com> wrote:
> >
> > This is still an issue for me.  Does anyone have a clue what's going on here?
> >
> > I'm not a big perl guy, but I can poke around.  Does BackupPC have a function to get something into the log files?
> >
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> > ----- "Gerald Brandt" <gbr AT majentis DOT com> wrote:
> > >
> > > Bad form, replying to myself.
> > >
> > > ----- "Gerald Brandt" <gbr AT majentis DOT com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > >
> > > > I recently switched a windows backup from backing up the drives via ssh and rsync to using vss, ssh, and rsync.
> > > >
> > > > The backup just finished, and I can't browse the directory.  I get the following error:
> > > >
> > > > Error: Can't browse bad directory name /
> > > >
> > > > The directory is definitely there, and it looks good to me.
> > > >
> > > > I used to backup /cygdrive/c, /cygdrive/h, /cygdrive/j
> > > >
> > > > Now that I use VSS, I mount the shadow copies using vshadow -el={GUID},dir  (vshadow -el{GUID},c:\shadow\c)
> > > >
> > > > So now I backup /cygdrive/c/shadow, which contains the directories c, h, j as shadow mounted VSS volumes.
> > > >
> > > > Does anyone have any idea what's happening here?
> > > >
> > > > # ls -l 126
total 8
-rw-r----- 2 backuppc backuppc  45 2010-06-02 23:00 attrib
-rw-r----- 1 backuppc backuppc 616 2010-06-03 00:16 backupInfo
drwxr-x--- 5 backuppc backuppc  32 2010-06-02 23:00 f%2fcygdrive%2fc%2fshadow

# ls -l 126/f%2fcygdrive%2fc%2fshadow/
total 12
-rw-r-----  2 backuppc backuppc   41 2010-06-02 23:00 attrib
drwxr-x--- 23 backuppc backuppc 4096 2010-06-01 21:43 fc
drwxr-x---  6 backuppc backuppc   40 2010-06-02 11:46 fh
drwxr-x---  5 backuppc backuppc   32 2010-06-02 23:00 fj
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > Thanks,
> > > >
> > > > Gerald
> > > >
> > > >

> > > If a manually create the url to browse the backup, all my data is there.  It's only the top-level dir that has issues.
> > >
> > > http://backuppc/backuppc/index.cgi?action="">
> > >
> > > This give me subdirs c, h, and j to look through.
> > >
> > > Gerald
> > >
> > >

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