[tahoe-dev] tahoe backup in 1.8.3, where are my files?

[David-Sarah Hopwood]

On 01/07/12 14:40, Marco Tedaldi wrote:
> Hello everyone
> 
> After a quite long time my backup finally finished. But now I see that I can't find the
> files anymore (i mean, on my root cap or in the alias for the backup).
> 
> The directories are there (even the one with the timestamp is there) but there are no
> files. The directories are just empty!

On the VG2 list you mentioned you were also getting UploadUnhappinessErrors.
I suggest looking for the cause of that first, because backup is always going to
be unreliable if you're getting those.

> I have had quite some trouble while doing the backup. So I had removed the backupdb.sqlite
> more than once.

Removing the backupdb.sqlite will effectively cause 'tahoe backup' to forget that it
has uploaded any files, but as long as you've done another backup on all of the files
you want, that shouldn't be a problem.

> After I have had huge problems when trying to upload all the data in one go I fallowed the
> advice in the documentation to upload the subdirectories one-by-one.
> All the sub directories have been uploaded successfully. Than I started backup on the
> [parent directory], which went through all the files really quick and also finished with
> success.
> 
> But after all that, I can only find empty directories in the wb UI.
> My files seem to be there, but I can't find them.

What's the directory structure exactly?

-- 
David-Sarah Hopwood ⚥

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