[Box Backup] bbackupquery.exe issues, native windows client boxwin0.09h.exe

[E.W. Peter Jalajas]

--- Per Thomsen <pthomsen@reedtz.com> wrote:

> On 1/13/06 10:59 PM, E.W. Peter Jalajas wrote:
> > The boxwin query listing seems to report the timestamp as exactly
the correct day and minute, but 10
> > hours in the future (or 14 hours in the past?).

> I'm pretty sure the time stamps in bbackupquery are UTC, so you must
be 10 hours west of Greenwich. 


I think I'm set to EST (GMT-5):
Under cygwin:
$ date
Sat Jan 14 09:33:04 EST 2006
Under cmd:
C:\PROGRA~1\BOXBAC~1>date /T
Sat 01/14/2006
C:\PROGRA~1\BOXBAC~1>time /T
09:33 AM



> > C:\PROGRA~1\BOXBAC~1>bbackupquery.exe "list -odtsr test" quit
> > Exception: invalid string position
> > C:\PROGRA~1\BOXBAC~1>bbackupquery.exe "list -odtsr" test quit
> > Exception: invalid string position

> Seems like a bug in the Windows client (or maybe in cmd.exe)... Can
you
> issue the 'list -odtsr test' command from within bbackupquery.exe?
I'm guessing here, but I think the problem is with the dash '-'...


C:\PROGRA~1\BOXBAC~1>bbackupquery.exe
Box Backup Query Tool v0.09hWin32, (c) Ben Summers 2003, 2004
Using configuration file C:\Program Files\Box Backup\bbackupd.conf
No random device -- additional seeding of random number generator not
performed.
Connecting to store...
Handshake with store...
Login to store...
Login complete.
Type "help" for a list of commands.

query > list -odtsr test
00000003 f--o-- 2005-12-23T12:55:48 00037 Copy (2) of Copy of New Text
Document.
txt
00000004 f--o-- 2005-12-23T12:37:41 00014 Copy (3) of Copy of New Text
Document.
<snip>
00000033 f----- 2006-01-10T10:09:37 00001 200601100009.txt
00000034 f----- 2006-01-10T11:40:00 00001 junk2_20060110T0139.txt
00000035 f----- 2006-01-10T11:39:26 00001 ~junk2.txt
00000036 f----- 2006-01-13T09:00:15 00001 20060112T2300.txt
00000037 f----- 2006-01-13T09:12:41 00001 20060112T2312.txt
00000038 f----- 2006-01-13T10:04:18 00001 junk_20060113T0003.mpx
00000039 f----- 2006-01-13T22:01:04 00001 2006-01-13T1201.txt
0000003a f----- 2006-01-13T21:52:15 00001 cookies.txt
0000003b f----- 2006-01-13T21:52:22 00001 cookiesx.txt
0000003c f----- 2006-01-13T21:52:09 00001 history.dat
0000003d f----- 2006-01-13T21:52:24 00001 historyx.dat
0000003e f----- 2006-01-13T21:11:41 00001 junk_2006-01-13T1111.bkx
0000003f f----- 2006-01-13T21:51:59 00001 thumbs.db
00000040 f----- 2006-01-13T21:52:28 00001 thumbsx.db
00000041 f----- 2006-01-14T10:45:27 00001 2006-01-14T0045.txt
00000042 f----- 2006-01-14T11:26:56 00001 2006-01-14T0126.txt
query >


Thanks, Per,
Pete


Link of the fortnight or so (2005-12-28):  Yet another school exploring thin clients:
http://www.winonadailynews.com/articles/2005/12/27/news/00lead.txt

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