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stevebower
Jul 13, 2016Aspirant
Full backup only copies partial file set
I've just noticed, though no reason to suspect that the situation has changed, that a 'Full' backup of one of my shares to the ReadyNas backup share only does a partial copy. Tried reconfiguring the ...
stevebower
Jul 14, 2016Aspirant
Yes. I think the next thing is to delete the affected share and reinstate
StephenB
Jul 14, 2016Guru - Experienced User
stevebower wrote:
Yes. I think the next thing is to delete the affected share and reinstate
You could try deleting the backup job and creating a new one first.
- stevebowerJul 15, 2016Aspirant
That's the wierdedst thing - deleted, recreated and copied back the files on the suspect share. Deleted & recreated the backup job. No change. Still what looks like the same subset being backed up, but now when I look in more detail, it seem to be the folders only, no contents??? Think that is what it was doing before
- StephenBJul 15, 2016Guru - Experienced User
stevebower wrote:
That's the wierdedst thing - deleted, recreated and copied back the files on the suspect share. Deleted & recreated the backup job. No change. Still what looks like the same subset being backed up, but now when I look in more detail, it seem to be the folders only, no contents??? Think that is what it was doing before
Perhaps delete the destination folder?
- stevebowerJul 15, 2016Aspirant
Did all that!
May try partial file sets to see if if a file silently crashing out the backup
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