Package: backintime-qt4 Version: 1.1.24-0.1 Severity: important Hello,
when u use backintime and backintime-qt4 on a desktop, the backup files are mostly on a remote medium, likely physically different storage, so this external location should be mounted before the backup is made. * backup are mostly run regular basis, using (cron) anacron in this case * a use case is an external usb-drive (harddisk) the observed behaviour: * if the backupdrive is mounted, no problem * if the backupdrive is not mounted, the backup is made on the mountpoint itself, (eating up local storage) * if later the backupdrive is mounted again for a another backup, the backup continues, no problem * but in the meanwhile there is local storage that is being occupied for everytime the backup did not got to the backup drive (ie it was not mounted), but the directory referring to the local mountpoint so the problem: after a while using a laptop, with not always the backup-drive connected, the hard drive gets filled with locally backup files, that are not visible the backup is mounted, so one starts to wonder where all the diskspace went :) expected behaviour: * no backup is made when the external drive is not mounted more info about the cronjob cat /var/spool/cron/crontabs/root # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall. # (/tmp/tmpisqqmnvj installed on Fri Nov 22 16:55:30 2019) # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 2.13 1994/01/17 03:20:37 vixie Exp $) #Back In Time system entry, this will be edited by the gui: */15 * * * * /usr/bin/nice -n 19 /usr/bin/ionice -c2 -n7 /usr/bin/backintime backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1 while the setting is once a day in the gui, and this seems the case in reality, but this is not the reason, just a note for now a manual fix is to change the cron entry with a preceeding mountpoint check hth, Wim -- System Information: Debian Release: 10.10 APT prefers oldstable-updates APT policy: (500, 'oldstable-updates'), (500, 'oldstable') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 5.10.0-0.bpo.8-amd64 (SMP w/16 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=nl_BE.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=nl_BE.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /usr/bin/dash Init: systemd (via /run/systemd/system) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages backintime-qt4 depends on: ii backintime-common 1.1.24-0.1 ii libnotify-bin 0.7.7-4 ii policykit-1 0.105-25 ii python3 3.7.3-1 ii python3-dbus.mainloop.qt 4.12.1+dfsg-2+b1 ii python3-pyqt4 4.12.1+dfsg-2+b1 ii x11-utils 7.7+4 Versions of packages backintime-qt4 recommends: ii python3-secretstorage 2.3.1-2 Versions of packages backintime-qt4 suggests: ii kompare 4:18.08.1-1 ii meld 3.20.0-2 -- no debconf information
