BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting files newer than error

2012-09-14 08:47:33
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Getting files newer than error
From: "Michael Stowe" <mstowe AT chicago.us.mensa DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2012 07:46:08 -0500
> My linux time is: Fri Sep 14 08:10:33 EDT 2012
>
> BackupPC error: Last error is "Getting files newer than Thu Sep 13
20:05:12 2012"
>
> Server Getting backed up time: Fri Sep 14 08:10:46 EDT 2012

There's something funny about the phrase "my Linux time" that makes me
believe I was not understood.

The Linux kernel keeps its own time, generally in UTC.  This is translated
to "local time" depending on the environment process of the user itself. 
Thus, the backuppc user can have a completely different time than, say,
you, or root.

Depending on the environment when BackupPC is launched, it may be
operating on UTC, or any other arbitrary time zone, which can have
absolutely nothing to do with the time zone you see (even as the backuppc
user, since its environment can be different when launching BackupPC and
when launched from the command line.)

So, the most likely explanation, and one not yet eliminated, is that the
scripts launching BackupPC do not have any time zones set, and therefore
the backuppc process is inheriting the UTC time.



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