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akniss
2007-12-08
2013-02-05
  • akniss

    akniss - 2007-12-08

    I assume the flist I see in my backup directory should contain a list of files that have been backed up.  I can't open that file in any of my backups (incremental or full).  Does this imply a problem with the backup process?  Is there somewhere else I should be looking for a log of the files that are being backed up?

     
    • Jon Rutherford

      Jon Rutherford - 2007-12-08

      When I was using sbackup I was able to read the flist with any text editor, as well as with the built-in editor in Midnight Commander file manager.  So it should be readable.

      I perhaps should add that I regretfully quit using sbackup because it would not back up binary files, rendering it essentially useless and causing me to spend about a day trying to recover from a situation where I needed an executable file I thought had been backed up, but wasn't.  None of my executable files got backed up, and that is not tolerable.

      So now I use a script with the cp command that does back every last thing up. 

       

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