[Box Backup] Changes in bbackupd.conf ignored
boxbackup@boxbackup.org
boxbackup@boxbackup.org
Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:58:15 +0200
I installed boxbackup - both server and client run on a ubuntu 8.04 box.
After working around some ubuntu-introduced bugs (install scripts
broken) by using the excelent howto from www.boxbackup.org i could to a
inital backup-test.
I use snapshot mode. My first BackupLocations look like:
home
{
Path = /home
ExcludeDir = /home/mainuser
}
There are some testusers around with about 150 mb data and they are
stored as expeced by typing:
bbackupctl sync
Now after that successful test I wanted to backup the data of the
mainuser (about 9 GB) and changed the bbackupd.conf to:
home
{
Path = /home
ExcludeDir = /home/mainuser/.ssh
ExcludeDir = /home/mainuser/special
}
After that change I restarted the boxbackup-client (bbackupd) and did a new:
bbackupctl sync
This was unbelievably fast and space efficient. It endet after 1 second
with a successful message and does not need one MB space more on the server!
So I was a little in doubt and did a
bbackupquery "compare -aq" quit
which told me about a endless list of missing files on the server.
So it looks like bbackupquery recognizes the changed bbackupd.conf, but
bbackupctl does not.
Has anybody an idea what I did wrong?
gerhard