Description On 25 February I noticed that backintime (root) had not done any backups since 18 February so I attempted to do manual snapshots using both options all I got was "Done No backup needed.". I even set the logging option to All - there was no data. That was with version 1.4.1 so I manually installed version 1.4.3. the problem persisted. I am running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. The problem was resolved by doing a reboot - I went to check bactintime (root) and it was working - it took 30 minutes. The have been no problems with the non root backintime backups. My suspicion is that a reboot occurred during a backintime (root) backup . The reboot may have been requested a Ubuntu update, I rarely reboot the cystem. I have the configuration option set so that only one backup job at a time can be active. Is backintime (root) capable of handling interruptions caused by a reboot? Is there a lock file that is only cleared after a reboot or completion of a backup? I am willing to do some testing by disabling root backups for a while and then manually start a snapshot and reboot the system while snapshot is running or before the root backup starts - the non root job seems to run first. Thanks to all Stephen Carr
Dear Stephen, thanks for reaching out and your report. Please be aware that the current maintenance team is the 3rd generation. We are not the founders of Back In Time (BIT) and still do investigate the behavior of BIT. But we are on track! ;) On 2024-02-26 02:43 sgcarr@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 February I noticed that backintime (root) had not done any backups since 18 February
I am sorry to hear that. It sounds familiar to some of our known bugs. My team mates are deeper in that area and will point you to it. Being silent for 7 days not doing any backups is another topic we do have on our list. We think about how we can make BIT more verbose in that situation. See: - <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/450> - <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1018>
Is backintime (root) capable of handling interruptions caused by a reboot?
It should, yes. It can resume backups.
Is there a lock file that is only cleared after a reboot or completion of a backup?
There are several lock files. This is one topic we do investigate. Our current results about that research are summarized in this developers documentation. <https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/blob/dev/common/doc-dev/4_Control_fil...> Thanks in advance Christian Buhtz
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