[tahoe-dev] tahoe backup re-uploads old files

[Marco Tedaldi]

Am 24.02.2012 20:45, schrieb Marco Tedaldi:
> Hello everyone
>
> I'm a member of VG2 and using it for backing up my collection of digital
> pictures i took with my camera over the years...
>
> Today it was finally done. The first full backup of my digital pictures
> was finished.
> Now, I immedediately started a new run to get the changes since the
> start of the last run into the backup as well.
>
> To my surprise it skipped some old pictures (which I consider normal)
> but started uploading one of the old pictures I had for sure not touched
> in the mean time.
>
> I've seen this behavior in the past as well when I restarted the backup
> after it had failed to complete. So back than, I just blamed it on the
> old, incomplete run.
> But now, I don't really have an Idea why tahoe should upload this file
> again.
>
> It also states on the web interface, that there are no shares already
> present. Which is quite surprising as the whole file should already be
> there!
>
> I'm using tahoe 1.8.3.
>
> Any ideas what could cause this trouble? What information would you need
> to track this issue down?
>
> best regards
>
> Marco

Oh, just as a not: this looks somewhat like this:
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0022.tif'..
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/IMG_3065.TIF'..
checking 
'URI:CHK:gxtbrbfds5x63jbcnu4jaq:qzqfninxxp37itz46omv77jk7z65tj5q3rij4aa:5:11:47963680'
uploading 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0062.tif'..
 
/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0062.tif 
-> 
URI:CHK:wwb4bnlxxgf4k36ksuez54:q4cscrabzb5mzqxzb2fdrvovavek7hwea3r4vwxf3a:3:9:47963680
checking 
'URI:CHK:2avnob3ryazezz6767pq:772sj564mc3zrzq2f3elrpqofog535oeea56neioghytdeq:5:11:57918660'
uploading 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/IMG_3015.TIF'..
  /home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/IMG_3015.TIF -> 
URI:CHK:6mtde4wl5h5oblhccex2m:6s6fw5qkeniftgkrgwvpjsnmobo5r4pkzjxtqpnfa:3:9:57918660
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0026.tif'..
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0059.tif'..
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0043.tif'..
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/IMG_3091.TIF'..
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/IMG_3073.TIF'..
skipping 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/KircheStOthmar_0077.tif'..
checking 
'URI:CHK:o5tqiwwtgtrrbbvaq42q:ewjnskjswrenieqlx5gzwfdq62r5ojgel5da:5:11:57918660'
uploading 
'/home/alle/bilder/Digi-Pix/2010/20100524_StOthmar/TIFF/IMG_3040.TIF'..

(oh yeah, i've deleted some random parts of the URI... if you need the 
whole uri, I can give it out by PM. It's not that these images are big 
secrets)...

best regards

Marco