[Box Backup] lazy and snapshot together, file formats and files changing often

Louis-Dominique Dubeau boxbackup@fluffy.co.uk
Fri, 16 May 2008 19:06:51 -0400


On Fri, 2008-05-16 at 23:17 +0100, Chris Wilson wrote:

> Snapshot mode does not force all files to be backed up. The same rules 
> about MinimumFileAge, MaxUploadWait, etc. are still observed. You could 
> argue that this is a bug.

I would say it is strange.  I would definitely expect bbackupctl sync to
force a all files to be backed up.

> Not at all, you can and should leave it in lazy mode. Probably all that 
> happened is that the files became old enough while you went through the 
> process of changing the config that they were backed up anyway.

Actually, I misspoke.  I switched to snapshot mode *and* I set
parameters like MinimumFileAge, etc. to 0.

Thanks,
Louis