UR-Backup + Owncloud bad combo?

Armand_Wolfaardt1 · September 18, 2019, 6:30am

Good Day,

Im having an irritating problem i use urbackup as incremental backups for many clients and as an offsite cloud service i use owncloud

the issue im haviing is the selected folders to sync with owncloud, so what happens when urbackup runs its incremental/full file i just get a bunch of shortcuts created in urbackup so the main folders never gets backed up because its also an owncloud sync

anyone know a way around this issue ?

senya · September 18, 2019, 2:37pm

Hi,

May be ths will be helpful?

github.com

owncloud/client/blob/master/sync-exclude.lst

# This file contains fixed global exclude patterns

*~
~$*
.~lock.*
~*.tmp
]*.~*
]Icon\r*
].DS_Store
].ds_store
._*
]Thumbs.db
System Volume Information

.*.sw?
.*.*sw?

].TemporaryItems
].Trashes
].DocumentRevisions-V100

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Armand_Wolfaardt1 · September 19, 2019, 11:08am

Hi i belive this is an excution list for owncloud itself ?

Armand_Wolfaardt1 · September 19, 2019, 12:06pm

I dont know if this will fix the issue of urbackup creating shortcuts but im trying to see if i exclude all owncloud create files if it will solve my issue

this is my exclude comands il be putting in ur backup
.db;.db-wall;.db-shm;Thumbs.db;owncloudsync;.owncloudsync;.owncloudsync;.owncloudsync.log.1;.owncloudsync.log.2;*.owncloudsync.log.3

senya · September 19, 2019, 4:46pm

I think you can add to this file needed filemasks that urbackup create to avoid owncloud copy them.

Armand_Wolfaardt1 · September 23, 2019, 8:49am

Hi thanks for helping>

The issue is still there but the weirdest part is now incrementals fail the entire time or not so to say fail but instead creates a full file backup

getting realy frustrated since its a 6 TB drive and the backups is only 1.3 TB and it only keeps 1 copy

Im 100% sure its owncloud since when it run then it creates full file backups instead of incrementals. It also then creates shortcuts over the folders that is selected to sync with owncloud so those folders dosnt backup but accourding to urbackup it was succesfull wich it is definitly not

When a exit owncloud completly then urbackups works 100% and incrementals work and no shortcuts created

uroni · September 23, 2019, 10:58am

Ok, just to clarify, are you trying to backup the UrBackup server backup storage with OwnCloud, or trying to backup a folder synced via OwnCloud from a client?

Then the operating systems involved would be important… (plus UrBackup + Owncloud versions?)

Armand_Wolfaardt1 · September 23, 2019, 11:27am

Hi Roni,

My client uses owncloud to access certain folders from any ware, owncloud is not used as a backup solution but as as a anytime aces feature

The urbackup is set to run as the backup solution

owncloud version 10.1
Urbackup Version 2.3.8
Running windows Server 2012
And the UrBackup server is cent os 7

uroni · September 23, 2019, 11:40am

Ok, no idea. If OwnCloud uses something like OneDrive (which I doubt), where the files aren’t stored normally (instead in some kind of cache database), that could be the reason (the files aren’t always present on disk anymore, but loaded “on-demand”).

Perhaps you can send/post me some (client) logs, or even “C:\Program Files\UrBackup\urbackup\data\filelist.ub”.

Armand_Wolfaardt1 · September 23, 2019, 11:42am

Definitly not the files are created on file explorer and for the most part used but the files are definitly there

Il send you the logs