[Box Backup] How to fix compare errors??? more info

[Magnus Homann]

Chris Wilson wrote:

> chris@rocio:/tmp$ md5sum bigfile*
> f1c9645dbc14efddc7d8a322685f26eb  bigfile
> f1c9645dbc14efddc7d8a322685f26eb  bigfile.sparse

This is what I got:
homann@crux:~$ md5sum bigfile*
f1c9645dbc14efddc7d8a322685f26eb  bigfile
f1c9645dbc14efddc7d8a322685f26eb  bigfile.sparse
homann@crux:~$

>> Local file 
>> '/persistent/homann/gps-3.1.0w-academic-x86-linux/doc/gps/pdf/gps.pdf/gps.pdf' 
>> has different contents to store file 
>> '/persistent-homann/gps-3.1.0w-academic-x86-linux/doc/gps/pdf/gps.pdf'.
> 
> This is also weird. The two paths should be the same (below the location 
> root), but they're not. What version of Box Backup is this? And did you 
> build it yourself?

This is .10, built by myself. All tests passed.

homann@crux:~$ gcc --version
gcc (GCC) 4.0.2 20050808 (prerelease) (Ubuntu 4.0.1-4ubuntu9)
Copyright (C) 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
homann@crux:~$ openssl version
OpenSSL 0.9.7g 11 Apr 2005
homann@crux:~$


>> gps-back1.pdf seemed tog et backed u properly. But what happened to 
>> gps-back2.pdf? Checking with bbackupquery indiacte that gps-back1.pdf 
>> was in the store, but not gps-back2.pdf. How come?
> 
> It was modified after the last sync time. Modified files are not 
> uploaded for a certain amount of time, set by MinimumFileAge in 
> bbackupd.conf.

Didn't know about that. Thought bbackupctl sync overrode that. Changed 
it now to 300 for testing purposes.

>> Finally, I touched the gps.pdf, and restarted all processes. Same result:
> 
> You probably didn't leave it long enough for it to be old enough to back 
> up. Please could you try again?

Yes, all three files are now identical with their backups. So, how 
should i proceed with the other files. Is touching the only option?