Re: [BackupPC-users] Backup files disappeared

[Craig B. <cba...@us...>]

Yaakov writes:

> When I changed which "shares" I wanted to backup (through samba
> client), the ones that were there already all backed up disappeared.
> They disappeared not just from the web-based interface, but after
> checking the actual back up location on the disk, I saw that they
> disappeared completely.
> 
> Is this a normal behavior for BackupPC? I mean, if I accidentally
> change what I want backup and take out the configuration of what I was
> backing up before, it is supposed to get rid of every backup there was
> for the directory that I was backing up before???
> 
> Seems like such an odd behavior! Just because I don't want to back up
> some directory anymore, doesn't mean I don't want the previous backups
> to still be there!

This definitely shouldn't happen.  Other than chaning the expiry
schedule for backups, no configuration changes should cause a
backup to be deleted.

Does the numbered backup directory still exist (eg, TOPDIR/pc/HOST/nnn)?
If so, are you saying it is now empty?

Craig