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    • I
      iqweb last edited by

      I'll switch back to rsync with hardlinks & try touching the error files too

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      • girish
        girish Staff last edited by

        @iqweb We are monitoring @nebulon 's backups in the meantime, so we can find a workaround. Maybe as simple as a retry or maybe using rsync instead or creating hardlinks manually in node might do the trick.

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          msbt App Dev last edited by

          I've been using hardlinks for a few days now and encountered no problems so far. Would the backup job notify me if some links couldn't be generated? Not sure what happened the last time I tried that.

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          • nebulon
            nebulon Staff last edited by

            Yes you would receive a notification and email if a backup job failed

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            • I
              iqweb last edited by

              Seems to be working for me now too!

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              • jdaviescoates
                jdaviescoates @iqweb last edited by

                @iqweb said in Nextcloud Backup without Data:

                jdaviescoates - Do you mean the borgbackup to Hetzner storagebox - or the Synology pull?

                Both! Thanks 😊

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                • nebulon
                  nebulon Staff last edited by

                  Just a heads up, I have seen some bad behavior with cifs mount and hard-links on my personal Cloudron, which made some backups corrupt.

                  So please everyone who is using this for now with relevant data, do not use hardlinks.

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                  • girish
                    girish Staff last edited by

                    We have now setup a separate hetzner box to sync large amount of data to debug this issue.

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                    • jdaviescoates
                      jdaviescoates @nebulon last edited by

                      @nebulon said in Nextcloud Backup without Data:

                      So please everyone who is using this for now with relevant data, do not use hardlinks.

                      I'm not sure if this applies to me or not. I backup to a Hetzner Cloud Volume (not storage box). Currently I have hardlinks enabled. Should I turn them off?

                      What should I look for in the logs to see if this is effecting me?

                      Thanks!

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                      • nebulon
                        nebulon Staff last edited by

                        It highly depends on how a "disk" is mounted onto the server. The hardlinks issue is only there for cifs mounts and since cifs/samba support hardlinks since a very long time, this seems to be related in particular to the hetzner storage boxes at the moment.

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                        • jdaviescoates
                          jdaviescoates @nebulon last edited by

                          @nebulon OK thanks, so I don't think this applies to me.

                          This is how Hetzner Cloud Volumes are mounted:

                          mounting a hetzner volume.png

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                          • nebulon
                            nebulon Staff last edited by

                            correct in your case this should not be any issue as this is mounted like a regular ext4 which supports hardlinks just fine.

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