Hi,

Hermann Gottschalk wrote on 2011-08-17 10:48:22 +0200 [[BackupPC-users] Backup 
fails because of an empty share]:
> if you have a share configured to be backuped but the share itself
> contains no files or directories as it is empty, the backup will get the
> state "partial" and fails. This is quiet annoying since the backup will
> allways stay "partial" until anything is in the share. Then you get a
> full backup but you don't have any history for all the backups done
> during the share has been empty.
> 
> I don't really see a reason for this behaviour since the backups
> actually don't fail; they only cannot backup anything for the empty
> share. I thing a warning message wold be enough instead of the partial
> state. I.e. it's not partial as it backuped everything!

that's extremely interesting. Probably none of us have tried that out, because
*we* have read the documentation, so we know why it works that way and how we
can change it if we prefer otherwise. But thank you for confirming that it
works as intended.

Regards,
Holger

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