[Box Backup] boxbackup bahaviour when renaming directories

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Toby,

On Sun, 10 Jun 2012, Toby wrote:
> On 6/7/12 9:37 PM, Chris Wilson wrote:
>> On Thu, 7 Jun 2012, Toby wrote:
>>
>>> I recently renamed a bunch of directories on my machine running
>>> bbackupd. I was hopeing (but not counting on it) that the files
>>> contained in those directories would not have to be re-uploaded.
>>>
>>> Now when I checked with bbackupquery, I noticed that both the old and
>>> the new directories where there, both still contained files, and
>>> nothing was marked deleted. The new directory and the new files had
>>> different IDs, so I guess they were reuploaded.
>>>
>>> Now why wheren't the old directories marked deleted? Does this take
>>> some time?
>>
>> Good question. Please could you let us know what version of Box Backup
>> you're running, and run bbackupd with the "-o /tmp/bbackupd.log -Otrace"
>> and send the logfile to me privately, or at least the part that relates
>> to the directory that you deleted?
>
> There is no -o and no -O option in my version:
>
> Box Backup Client v0.11rc8+2714, (c) Ben Summers and contributors 2003-2010

Sorry, that feature was introduced in r2806. You can still log to a file 
by running bbackupd with the -V option and redirecting the output to a 
file.

Cheers, Chris.
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