I've come in on this chain rather late but might be able to add a few
things.
I've had file corruptions for some time, and Alan has all the evidence I
have been able to send him. However, reading these comments there are some
possibly salient aspects that I hadn't picked up before. I would normally
just send the information to Alan as I have done previously, but it might
also be of interest to others who have had corruptions.
Some people mentioned long paths. I run multi-level backups. The first
level is to the second drive on the machine, at varying intervals from
daily to monthly. I don't think any of those has corrupted.
I also backup periodically to Iyonix over Ethernet and I back up
periodically to a USB connected disc drive that I keep away from the
computer.
I think all the corruptions have been to the USB connected hard drive.
(Not sure about Iyonix, but I don't think so.)
The path lengths of all are similar, so I doubt that is an issue.
Size of backup has also been mentioned. One backup that corrupts is very
large - the whole of my working drive (minus things like the Junk
directory). It took ages to run the original but subsequent ones were much
quicker because most files hadn't changed.
Following the comment about missing <dir> and </dir> I just did a
ListOfFound on the tree, which gave 36881 <dir and 36961 </dir
However, the other backup (also to the USB drive) that has corrupted a few
times is my working directory, which is much smaller (~3000) and has an
identical source to one of my daily backups to the local drive.
So size doesn't look like the main issue.
That backup ran successfully a few days ago, but doing a ListOfFound on it
now shows 3081 <dir and 3083 </dir), so it must be corrupt (it should be
3084 by comparison with the tree of the daily backup).
Forced refresh was mentioned. AFIA that has always worked for me, at least
in the sense of completing the backup. What doesn't seem to work for me is
the option to rebuild the tree.
BTW - SS is an invaluable piece of software, and for my local backups is
100% reliable. The occasional corruption of remote backups is a nuisance
so I hope Alan manages to find the cause.
Regards
--
John Harrison
Website http://jaharrison.me.uk
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