Hi,

Adam Goryachev wrote on 2009-07-24 08:35:50 +1000 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Bug in 
Backuppc causing unnecessary re-transfer of?data with rsync]:
> [...]
> Sure, I understand that there was some communication problem, and the
> backup failed, but...
> [...]
> That is the problem, it is NOT thrown away, it is marked as completed
> successfully.

there was a similar report on the list not long ago. It appears there is a bug
in BackupPC which may lead to an interrupted rsync backup (not sure if only
incremental or also full; not sure about the cause of interruption) being
marked as successful, even though the log file indicates that an error was
detected at some point. The interrupted backup will be partial (i.e. missing
files), but BackupPC will treat it as if it were complete. The next backup
done with the partial one as reference (note that this next backup may also
be a full!) will need to re-transfer (i.e. not just check checksums of) all
files the partial is missing.

Is this summary correct? Can anyone add more information that may be relevant
for debugging?

> So, why is the incr backup saved as successfull instead of thrown away
> or marked as partial?

This remains to be found out and fixed. I'll try to have a look over the
weekend, but I can't promise anything. Adam, did I understand you correctly
that you can reproduce the problem?

Regards,
Holger

------------------------------------------------------------------------------
_______________________________________________
BackupPC-users mailing list
BackupPC-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
List:    https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users
Wiki:    http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net
Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/