basnijholt/rsync-time-machine.py

Log directory $HOME/.rsync-time-backup is empty

jesusguevarautomotriz opened this issue · 3 comments

jesusguevarautomotriz commented

I got a message: "Backup completed without errors". (690GB). But when I want to check the log-file to take a look at what it has backed up or detect some "error", the $HOME/.rsync-time-backup directory is empty.
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basnijholt commented

Thanks for reporting.

edit: turns out this is not a bug, see next comment.

basnijholt commented

Actually, it turns out the default for auto_delete_log=True:

rsync-time-machine.py/rsync_time_machine.py

Line 905 in 062f6d5

auto_delete_log=True,

This means that when there are no errors, the log will automatically be deleted.

basnijholt commented

This did highlight another error, auto_delete_log should be set to False when specifying --log-dir, fixed in #24.

So whenever an error occurred or when using --log-dir the log files are preserved. When not using --log-dir and no errors, the log file will be deleted.