[Box Backup-dev] Testing Boxi 0.1.1

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Pete,

> And then I didn't like what I was seeing under Backup, Edit List, that
> is, a red X at C:\Documents and Settings forced by Boxi because I had
> 	DocsSettings
> 	{
> 		Path = C:\Documents and Settings
> 		ExcludeDirsRegex = .*
> 		ExcludeFilesRegex = .*
> 		AlwaysIncludeFile = C:\Documents and Settings\boxitest.txt
> 	}
>
> So, I guess that's a
>
> BUG:  ExcludeDirsRegex = .* plus ExcludeFilesRegex = .* forces
> excluding entire dir tree, ignoring AlwaysIncludeFile.

Nope. The red X means that you excluded the directory explicitly. There 
should have been a yellow tick on "boxitext.txt" within that directory 
though, which means that the exclude was overridden.

> BUG: Certificate checking has a hex/ascii translation problem.

Yep, I know about that one now, after your last email.

> The Backup Progress panel, Statistics, Files, Elapsed "24" seemed 
> correct; Bytes said "51 (null)" -- not sure what that means.

51 (null) is a bug, it should have shown something like 51 bytes or 51 kB. 
I thought I had fixed that already. Is the file 51 bytes long?

> BUG:  Well almost restore correctly:  it was restored with a datestamp 4 
> hours in the future (time zone issue, I'm sure).  (And so, future backup 
> attempts gave Warning: file modified in the future.  So I deleted that 
> restored file.

Added to TODO list.

> BUG:  That newly created C:\PF\Box Backup\test\ directory never appeared 
> in the Backup Files or Restore Files panels after further Backup runs, 
> until I restarted Boxi, then they showed up fine.

Did you try closing and opening the node above (C:\PF\Box Backup)? That 
should re-read the directory listing. Newly added files do not show up on 
their own, I'm not sure how to make that happen on Windows.

> (The Restore to Date function on the Restore panel looks very
> interesting, but I haven't tested it yet.)

It has limitations. Directories don't have timestamps, so they are always 
restored. Older versions of the files that you're looking for may have 
been deleted already by housekeeping, so you will probably not get a 
complete directory tree. Renamed files are restored with their new names, 
not the old names at the time of the backup. Hopefully Ben's backup 
snapshot plans will make it possible to fix all of these.

> Not sure if the menu, View options are working (show old/deleted
> files).

No, that menu is no longer used and should be deleted. Added to TODO list.

> Deleted files look like they are greyed out in the Restore
> Files panel, and that seems fine.  Not sure how old files are shown, so
> I tried to test it by modifying a file under the test\ directory.

Old files are not shown, all versions are grouped under a single file 
node.

> BUG:  Attempts to restart boxi and look under Restore Files and 
> navigating to that test\ directory caused boxi to crash with a "boxi.exe 
> has encountered a problem" window.

I'll need all the debugging output from Event Viewer to fix this, I'm 
afraid.

By the way, there is a bug tracker on SourceForge for the Boxi project. 
I'd appreciate it if bug reports were put there to ensure that I don't 
lose them, and that you know when they're fixed.

Cheers, Chris.
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