[Box Backup] Mailbox backup is dangerous.

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Achim,

On Thu, 27 Aug 2009, Achim wrote:

>> Your special scenario would be even problematic if bb _would_ work as 
>> expected since your files wouldn't be recognized as being deleted but 
>> as being changed (*), so the "old version" will disappear somewhen.
>
> I thought that the "Restore to a certain point in time" was supposed to 
> solve this issue. Perhaps this would be cleaner with real snapshots, but 
> I would still expect Boxi to restore the pictures in a version before 
> and after the overwriting (given of course that a succesful backup took 
> place in between).

And provided that the old version in question has not yet been removed by 
housekeeping. And you can also do this with the command-line client, of 
course, not just with Boxi.

Cheers, Chris.
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