[Box Backup] Verbosity level: hardlinks in data

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On 24/03/2010 20:40, Chris Wilson wrote:
> This isn't default verbosity, it's only while running tests. I don't
> expect inexperienced users to run the tests, I expect developers to do
> it for them.
>
> If the default verbosity level of the application in production is too
> high, please suggest which messages (that you see in the event log in
> normal use) you don't think are useful and let's see what we can do
> about it.

Hello all!

First off I would like to thank everybody working on Boxbackup for the excellent piece of software! It makes me sleep more quietly, knowing my data is securely backed up.

The statement quoted above made me think about the following warnings I find during regular use (there is many of them):
"WARNING: Found conflicting parent ID for file ID 877342 (<some file>): expected 105753 but found 105777 (same directory used in two different locations?)"

Ticket #63 says these messages may be due to hard links on the data files which is the case here. Since I had foolishly introduced hardlinks in order to save disk space, I am now cursed with log files of 17MB each.

I suggest introducing options to either suppress such warning messages alltogether (maybe by type if that is possible?) or to reduce the number of warnings of identical type to 1 (like "showing only one of ##"). Something similar must already be implemented for I also read:
"c314-stefan bbackupd[1574]: WARNING: Suppressing duplicate notification about read-error"

(BTW, would anybody please  explain to me what exactly that warning is caused by? I have not found any specific read-error in the log files. I would be grateful for a pointer to locate the problem.)

Cheers!


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