[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-23 Thread Fifoxtasy
work around works for me as well maybe this should be in the help -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time:

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-22 Thread cliff6056
Many thanks Dan. BIT is great. At least the workaround of keeping the / and /home in different profiles works for me, hopefully for others. -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-22 Thread Dan
** Changed in: backintime Status: Fix Committed => Won't Fix -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Tim

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-22 Thread Dan
I did some tests with Sidux. Indeed the latest update is 3.0.7. It seems that the problem is related to rsync. On my system with 3.0.6 the bug is there but using "--delete-before" as workaround works for me. On the other hand --delete-before is slower and use more memory because it does not use i

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-22 Thread Dan
Since the problem came from rsync I'll pass it to won't fix. -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: Fix

Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-20 Thread cliff6056
Latest Sidux which is based on Debian Sid and KDE 4.3.4. When I load up synaptic and check rsync this is the version number that shows. Dan wrote: > Hi cliff6056, > > How did you get 3.0.7 ? > What distribution are you using ? > > -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.l

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread Dan
Hi cliff6056, How did you get 3.0.7 ? What distribution are you using ? -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back I

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread cliff6056
Rsync version here is 3.0.7-2. -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: Fix Committed Bug description: Th

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread Dan
It looks like /etc to be a problem. On my side the old version (before beta16) didn't work, but now it works with both files from /home/user and from /etc. I have rsync: 3.0.6 What I did notice is that as a regular user rsync can't explore all items in /etc. -- Deleted Files are stored in snaps

Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread cliff6056
Tried the same test with 3 folders in one profile, with one folder being the /etc, and this time (checked twice) nothing was deleted from any. Unless I made a mistake in my previous test with 15, I thought the /etc would at least delete, but definitely not now. Once I removed the /etc from the in

Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread cliff6056
Using one profile and several backup folders: Just to report before I go to beta 16 as I just finished testing, I found that (using a smaller backup /home/me/Documents/FOO and /etc, it made no difference which order they were in. The home folder always retained the FOO, but the etc/BOO file would

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread Dan
I think I found the problem. In some cases rsync with "--delete" option does see some files, but with "--delete-before" it does. Please try beta16 version from testing repository. -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notifi

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-19 Thread Dan
Hi cliff6056, Just to be sure that I have it right: 1. Old mode: one profile with both /home/me and /etc. Some files are not deleted from new snapshots even they don't exists anymore. The files with problems are located in /home/me or /etc or both ? 2. New mode: one profile with /home/me and ano

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-17 Thread Fifoxtasy
all snapshots have read permissions only, no write permission. in the original folder (/home/...) i have permission to write -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, wh

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-17 Thread Dan
Please check user/group/rights: 1. of the original file (before delete) 2. of the file in the correct snapshot 3. of the file in the snapshot where it shouldn't be -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because yo

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-16 Thread cliff6056
I found that when I was backing up both /home/me and /etc in the main profile, that the files were not being deleted from my backups. I have since then created another profile for the /etc, and have /home/me by itself in the "Main Profile". Since doing this files are deleted, at least from the /h

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-02-16 Thread Fifoxtasy
still present in beta15 -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: Fix Committed Bug description: The class

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-30 Thread Fifoxtasy
still present in beta11. didn't recreate everything though, just updated. -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-24 Thread Fifoxtasy
the output of that command does NOT contain any lines for the files i deleted. is there anything else i can do to help you? -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, wh

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-24 Thread cliff6056
Hi Dan. The experiences on my system (which I reloaded this morning to make sure everything was okay) are: cl...@siduxbox:~$ rsync -aEHAX --delete-excluded -v --chmod=Da+w --delete --exclude="/media/disk1part4" --exclude="/home/cliff/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/cliff/" --includ

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-24 Thread Dan
You should run the command: rsync -aEHAX --delete-excluded -i --dry-run --chmod=Da+w --delete --exclude="/media/Extern/Backups" --exclude="/home/philipp/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/philipp/" --include="/home/" --include="/media/Data/Fotos/" --include="/media/Data/" --include="/media/

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-23 Thread Fifoxtasy
i thought i'd mention that for me it happens on a fresh install and a fresh backupfolder. -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time.

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-23 Thread cliff6056
Today I created a new test profile and backed up just a couple of folders to play with. I found that this new profile worked fine, deleting files from the new snapshots as I believe is expected. My main backup, however, which has snapshots that were created before I did a fresh install of backin

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-22 Thread Fifoxtasy
WARNING: Command "rsync -aEHAX --delete-excluded -i --dry-run --chmod=Da+w --delete --exclude="/media/Extern/Backups" --exclude="/home/philipp/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/philipp/" --include="/home/" --include="/media/Data/Fotos/" --include="/media/Data/" --include="/media/" --

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-22 Thread cliff6056
Experiencing the same as Fifoxtasy also using beta10 on kde4 and new config file. After running backintime -b the line I think that you request from the output gives a Warning instead of Info and looks as follows: WARNING: Command "rsync -aEHAX --delet

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-22 Thread Dan
Strange, I just tested and it works for me. If you have the time please do this: 1. create a 'foo' file in one of your included directories 2. take a snapshot (and check that the new file is in the snapshot) 3. remove 'foo' file 4. run 'backintime -b" from command line (and check the new snapshot s

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2010-01-21 Thread Fifoxtasy
just tried again with the newest version 0.9.99beta10 on kde4. files still don't get deleted :( in newer snapshots. ghost files persist -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In T

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-12-04 Thread Dan
Just test it and it seems to work. So no longer schedule per included directory. Use profiles instead. ** Changed in: backintime Status: In Progress => Fix Committed -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-12-03 Thread Shawn
I've been following along with this bug since it's been a little bit of a headache and just found that if I used the solution posted above (i.e. exclude *.gvfs) and run it from "Back in Time (root)" it works as expected. The "foo" file vanishes. If I use the same settings and just use "Back in Ti

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-12-02 Thread Bart de Koning
Since we removed the Schedule per Included folder option, I added the --delete-excluded again. This should solve the ghost folders, however I need to verify that still ** Changed in: backintime Status: Confirmed => In Progress -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-12-02 Thread Bart de Koning
** Changed in: backintime Assignee: (unassigned) => Bart de Koning (bratdaking) -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Stat

Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-17 Thread Bart de Koning
I know it could be solved by adding the --delete-excluded, however than we need to redesign the schedule per included folder. It should then hardlink to snapshots from the same schedule. On hardlinking capable partitions this issue does not consume more space and it does not take really longer to a

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-13 Thread Dan
** Changed in: backintime Importance: Undecided => High -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/406092 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Back In Time Team, which is subscribed to Back In Time. Status in Back In Time: Confir

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-13 Thread Dan
I confirm, the bug is valid. Your procedure prove it. rsync has the option " --delete-excluded" to remove excluded files. This can fix the bug but it can disable schedule per include directory (or it need to be redesigned). -- Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever https://bugs.launchpad

Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-13 Thread Bart de Koning
Well these are the best bugs off course: ghost bugs that just fix themselves But this bug is still valid as I found a way to create ghost files in your snapshots as I described above... However if your problem reoccurs, please notify us again! 2009/11/12 Andreas > After having tried to analyse

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-12 Thread Andreas
After having tried to analyse the bug an several backups (unfortunately they took 2-3h each), I ended up that the bug completely disappeared. Please don't ask me why... I uninstalled backintime, deleted all configs, deleted the backups from the NFS drive, reinstalled backintime, didn't put ".gvfs"

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-10 Thread Bart de Koning
Hey this bug is turning into two: - the .gvfs problem -> lets continue that one in the default excluded folders bug https://bugs.launchpad.net/backintime/+bug/422132 - the problem of removing an included folder what leads to rudimentary ghost folders in the snapshots

[Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-10 Thread Seth Remington
Excluding ".gvfs" actually resolved the issue for me. Before BiT I had rolled my own similar back up routine using hard links and rsync and had run into this exact same behavior. What I had discovered then was that rsync was bombing out on .gvfs (permission errors) before it finished running and b

Re: [Bit-team] [Bug 406092] Re: Deleted Files are stored in snapshots forever

2009-11-10 Thread Bart de Koning
The exact commands are logged in your messages log (Command "..." returns 0) Between " " is the command that is issued (it might be better to have a look in the syslog, as in messages the commands can be truncated. You can also run it from the command line: backintime -b than all the messages are a