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Only one Snapshot is taken

Asked by florianr

Hallo!

It seems BiT only created one snapshot of my home directory, also I sheduled it to take a snapshot every hour. backintime --snapshots-list only shows one single snapshot in my backup folder.

Now I run backintime -b manualy and it is creating a new snapshot (taking some time)

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Dan (danleweb) said : 		#1

You have to check:

1. "cron" is running
2. backintime is in your crontab: "crontab -l"
3. that there are no error: look in your syslog for lines containing "backintime"

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florianr (florianr-gmx) said : 		#2

Cron is running:
bash-4.0$ ps ax|grep cron
 1475 ? Ss 0:00 crond

bash-4.0$ sudo crontab -l
@hourly nice -n 19 /usr/bin/backintime --backup-job >/dev/null 2>&1

messages:
Feb 10 23:00:22 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Lock
Feb 10 23:00:22 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Include folders: ['/home/florian']
Feb 10 23:00:22 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Ignore folders: ['/home/florian/Archive', '/etc']
Feb 10 23:00:22 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Last snapshots: {'/home/florian/Archive': datetime.datetime(2010, 2, 10, 0, 50), '/etc': datetime.datetime(2010, 2, 10, 0, 50), '/home/florian': datetime.datetime(2010, 2, 10, 0, 50)}
Feb 10 23:01:55 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Command "find "/home/florian/smb4k/LS-CHL-V2719/share/backintime/new_snapshot" -type d -exec chmod u+wx {} \;" returns 0
Feb 10 23:09:11 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Command "rm -rf "/home/florian/smb4k/LS-CHL-V2719/share/backintime/new_snapshot"" returns 0
Feb 10 23:09:11 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Compare with old snapshot: 20100210-000000
Feb 10 23:11:22 f12 backintime (root): WARNING: Command "rsync -aEAX -i --dry-run --chmod=Fa-w,D+w --whole-file --delete --exclude="/home/florian/smb4k/LS-CHL-V2719/share" --exclude="/root/.local/share/backintime" --include="/home/florian/" --include="/home/" --exclude="/home/florian/download" --exclude="/home/florian/.VirtualBox" --exclude="/home/florian/vmware" --exclude="/home/florian/Archive" --exclude="/home/florian/Pictures" --exclude="/home/florian/.snapshot" --exclude="/home/florian/.google/desktop" --exclude="/home/florian/smb4k" --exclude="/etc" --include="/home/florian/**" --exclude="*" / "/home/florian/smb4k/LS-CHL-V2719/share/backintime/20100210-000000/backup/"" returns 5888
Feb 10 23:11:22 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Create hard-links
Feb 10 23:15:34 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Command "cp -alb "/home/florian/smb4k/LS-CHL-V2719/share/backintime/20100210-000000/backup/home/florian"* "/home/florian/smb4k/LS-CHL-V2719/share/backintime/new_snapshot/backup/home/florian"" returns 0
Feb 10 23:15:34 f12 backintime (root): INFO: Call rsync to take the snapshot
Feb 11 00:00:17 f12 backintime (root): WARNING: A backup is already running

How could I reset all backintime settings? I want to start from a blanck setting, it seems there is something messed up ...

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Best Dan (danleweb) said : 		#3

To reset all settings you have to remove: ~/.config/backintime folder.

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florianr (florianr-gmx) said : 		#4

Thanks Dan, that solved my question.