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Why back in time doesn't perform a full complete snapshot at one time?

Asked by Javier Melero

I've set up back in time to do a snapshot every hour, and before that I've made a snapshot also, but none of those snapshots are complete, I mean it's running for almost a week, I've got at least 40 snapshots, but all of them are incomplete, even today it hasn't backed up all my files, only a few on each snapshot.
I'd like to know if I'm doing something wrong or what, it is an excellent piece of software, and I want to use it, but this is worrying me as I don't know if I've got or not backup of my files.

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

What do you means by incomplete ?
Do you have some files that you should find in snapshots and you don't find them ?

Regards,
Dan

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Javier Melero (ricmelero) said : 		#2

Yes Dan, as you said, only some folders are backed up, and some others are empty, I see that every snapshot have new files, I mean if in one snapshot some folder where empty, in the next snapshot it is backed up, but there are many others empty. I've many snapshot by now, and still haven't a full backup of all my files.

I don't know if the cron has a time limit to run or what, but never gets more than 10 mins running, and obviously as I said, never backed up all my files.

Just to add some info, I'm backing up my /home/{user} folder, excluding videos folder, and /var/www, and /var/lib/mysql. I use back in time as root.
Another detail, my home folder has almost 60 gb, without the videos, and the backups have up to 110 gb... with a lot of files waiting to being backed up! :s

I hope you understand me, sorry for my english.

Javier.

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