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Philippe Delodder (lodder) wrote : Re: [Bug 445346] Re: smart remove is deleting all earlier snapshots

Hi Stan,

In time-drive 0.3 which is still in development logging features has been
added. But you can check the out put if you open a terminal and type
"time-drive" in it. maby there can be an error and if it's not the case I
don't think I can help very much I'm sorry.

Kind Regards,
--
Philippe Delodder
<email address hidden>
http://www.delodder.be

2009/10/7 Stan Armstrong <email address hidden>

> Hello Philippe,
>
> Unfortunately, I run Time-Drive from the GUI, not from a terminal. I
> have asked before whether there are any error logs or standard output
> logs saved during the running of Time-Drive. If there are, and you can
> tell me where they are, I will be pleased to send them to you.
>
> Regards,
>
> Stan Armstrong
>
> Philippe Delodder wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have read a few times do you have any console out put that can be of
> > importance to me to solve it, but the auto-remove feature isn't working
> > yet.
> >
> > Maby you came a across an import error, but I need more information
> >
> > ** Changed in: time-drive
> > Status: New => Incomplete
> >
> >
>
> --
> smart remove is deleting all earlier snapshots
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/445346
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> Status in Time Drive: Incomplete
>
> Bug description:
> I lost all my snapshots except the current one when I chose smart remove. I
> set it up yesterday. I ran refresh. Nothing appeared to happen. My list of
> snapshots remained the same. This morning I discovered that all but two
> entries for last night's snapshot had been removed from the list. The list
> now contains entries marked Tue Oct 6 00:32:48 2009 and Tue Oct 6 00:00:02
> 2009. Both entries are tagged with the blue circle.
>
> I had had several incrementals and three full backups. It is now impossible
> to restore to a state earlier than last night's backup. When I looked at the
> actual backup folder, all the earlier duplicity files appeared to still be
> there. The latest backup (a full) seems to have started at midnight, as
> usual, and finished with a manifest file at 12:24:43. There are no files
> corresponding to the snapshot entry marked 00:32:48.
>
> I am running Time-Drive 0.2 on Ubuntu 9.04 64-bit.
>