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FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 05 Mar 2023, 14:14
by jojo88
FULL backup failed, Drive letter got changed, I fixed the drive letter, then manually reran the backup, COBIAN does not consider the FULL backup
an error? It ran a Differential backup instead? So if a backup runs and fails COBIAN considers that a valid backup entry?
See attachment
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 06 Mar 2023, 14:40
by cobian
No, if a fatal error arises then no entry should have been added.
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 09 Mar 2023, 07:52
by halfmann
Sorry to be contradictory. I saw the same problem in the past:
Cobian Reflector tried to do a full backup. That didn't work, because the network drive used as destination wasn't reachable at that time. The next backup Cobian Reflector tried to execute was a differntial backup.
And to make it worse, no files were backed up in this differential backup!!!
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 09 Mar 2023, 10:11
by cobian
Will check this out.
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 16 Mar 2023, 06:55
by halfmann
push...
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 16 Mar 2023, 10:22
by cobian
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 18 Mar 2023, 13:19
by cobian
This happens only if Options-Engine-Save empty backups is selected.
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 19 Mar 2023, 20:25
by halfmann
Ok, I will try this...
But the full backup is not only empty, it fails with an error. I think Reflector should consider this an handle it appropiate. There is an important difference between empty backups and failed backups.
Re: FULL Backup failed, next backup a Differential?
Posted: 20 Mar 2023, 11:30
by cobian