[Box Backup] Removing unused backup entries

Roy boxbackup at hostingbrothers.nl
Sun Feb 14 15:11:36 GMT 2010


Roy wrote:
> Chris Wilson wrote:
>> Hi Roy,
>>
>> On Mon, 8 Feb 2010, Roy wrote:
>>
>>>>> PS. Chris; is there already a solution for files with different 
>>>>> attributes on the store in comparison to the local file?
>>>>
>>>> No, please remind me of the issue, or preferably create a Trac 
>>>> ticket for it.
>>>
>>> I will do, but I have to get an account first. I get a lot of these 
>>> messages when I do a compare. And because Box Backup doesn't update 
>>> those attributes I get them over and over again. It is not a really 
>>> big deal, but I get lot's of error when I compare, so this clutters 
>>> my view. And, off course, the attributes aren't saved correctly.
>>
>> I'm afraid I will need you to collect some more information for me. 
>> I've uploaded a new Windows build which contains additional debugging 
>> logging statements, which you can download here:
>>
>> http://www.boxbackup.org/svn/box/chris/win32/releases/boxbackup-trunk_2604-backup-client-mingw32.zip 
>>
>>
>> If you run the new build of bbackupquery with the "-V" option, and 
>> compare, you should see a line with "Attribute Compare:" in the 
>> output, before each comparison failure:
>>
>> TRACE:   Attribute Compare: File modification times differ: local 
>> 1605940943, remote 1839817581
>> WARNING: Local file 'testfiles/TestDir1/tracked-2' has different 
>> attributes to store file '/Test1/tracked-2'.
>>
>> Please tell me what those lines say (by private email if they contain 
>> sensitive information).
>>
>> Cheers, Chris.
> Hi Chris,
>
> I'm back again and have just installed this new release. I will run a 
> compare run this night (takes about 5 hours) and will send you the 
> results.
> I will run it like this:
> bbackupquery -V -c bbackupd.conf -o bbackupquery.log -O warning 
> "compare -a" quit
> Is that correct? Because I want it in a logfile and this worked with 
> the previous version (only tested without -V).
>
> Cheers,
>
> Roy
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Hi Chris,

Unfortunately it failed. The log doesn't contain those messages and the 
command windows was closed after running the batch file. So I have to do 
it again.
Maybe in a new version the messages can be send to the logfile as well?

I'll run it again tonight.

Cheers,

Roy



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