[Box Backup] backup timing issues, native windows client boxwin0.09h.exe on WinXP Home

E.W. Peter Jalajas boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Wed, 18 Jan 2006 08:27:24 -0800 (PST)


Even with my bbackupd.conf settings at the very short intervals of the
test bbackupd.conf settings (well below 1 minute; snipped screen
scrapes below, edited for clarity), my new files are not being backed
up until exactly 5 hours and 3 seconds later. 

This may relate to the bbackupquery timestamp/timezone problem
mentioned in my other recent thread:
[Box Backup] bbackupquery.exe issues, native windows client
boxwin0.09h.exe

I have no idea really, but I think bb may be using timezone adjustments
inconsistently, either internally to one end (windows client or linux
server), or during communications between the windows client and the
linux server, but I'm too lazy to figure out how to figure it all out. 

Any ideas on how I can resolve this problem and get my backups stored
timely?

Thanks,
Pete

>From ls -alrtF on server store:
-rw-r--r--  1 224 2006-01-14 14:53 o44.rfw  (2006-01-14T09:50.txt)
-rw-r--r--  1 208 2006-01-16 00:32 o48.rfw  (2006-01-15T19:29.txt)
-rw-r--r--  1 208 2006-01-17 04:40 o4a.rfw  (2006-01-16T23:37.txt)
-rw-r--r--  1 208 2006-01-18 03:53 o4d.rfw  (2006-01-17T22:50.txt)
-rw-r--r--  1 224 2006-01-18 06:22 o50.rfw  (2006-01-18T01:19.txt)
-rw-r--r--  1 6652 2006-01-18 06:22 o02.rfw
-rw-------  1 0 2006-01-18 10:41 write.lock
-rw-r--r--  1 88 2006-01-18 10:41 info.rfw
drwxr-xr-x  2 4096 2006-01-18 10:41 ./

>From bbackupquery:
00000044 f----- 2006-01-14T19:50 00001 2006-01-14T09:50.txt
00000048 f----- 2006-01-16T05:29 00001 2006-01-15T19:29.txt
0000004a f----- 2006-01-17T09:37 00001 2006-01-16T23:37.txt
0000004d f----- 2006-01-18T08:50 00001 2006-01-17T22:50.txt
00000050 f----- 2006-01-18T11:19 00001 2006-01-18T01:19.txt

C:\Program Files\Box Backup>net stop boxbackup
The Box Backup service is stopping.
The Box Backup service was stopped successfully.
C:\Program Files\Box Backup>net start boxbackup
The Box Backup service was started successfully.
C:\Program Files\Box Backup>bbackupctl reload
Using configuration file C:\Program Files\Box Backup\bbackupd.conf
Daemon configuration summary:
  AutomaticBackup = true
  UpdateStoreInterval = 3 seconds
  MinimumFileAge = 4 seconds
  MaxUploadWait = 24 seconds
Succeeded.

>From cmd of the backuplocation:
01/14/2006  09:50 AM                19 2006-01-14T0950.txt
01/15/2006  07:29 PM                 7 2006-01-15T1929.txt
01/16/2006  11:37 PM                 7 2006-01-16T2337.txt
01/17/2006  10:50 PM                 5 2006-01-17T2250.txt
01/18/2006  01:19 AM                30 2006-01-18T0119.txt
01/18/2006  10:09 AM    <DIR>          .
01/18/2006  10:09 AM    <DIR>          ..

feeble attempt at keywords:  late backups, backups are late

--- 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