Manual backups overwritten by ACB?
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Hmm, there was another report of this recently but I can't find it now...
I'll try and replicate it.
Steve
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@stephenw10 The poster seems to have deleted it, but it was after google had already made a cache of the post.
https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:ZuVxUm4FOJMJ:https://forum.netgate.com/topic/172520/automatic-configuration-backup-overwriting-manual-backups/1+&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
btb66 I don't think Auto Configuration Backup is working as should do for me. As a newcomer I've been taking Manual backups from the 'Backup Now' tab, I've set the number of manual backs to protect (not overwrite) at 40 as being new I thought I might need to have good restore options. These 'manual backups' I've made appear in the list on the 'Restore' tab, but they eventually get overwritten by the newest Automatic Backups, the same when I SSH and look for backups from the shell, they aren't being protected. I've done a search here and think from what I've seen these 'manual backups' should be shown and listed also in the 'Backup Now' tab and available to restore. If this is right I'm not seeing them, they only appear in the 'Restore' tab until they drop off the top of the list. I can can ping acb.netgate.com and the system log shows backup success. Is there anything else to try? -
Ah, there we go. Thought I might have imagined it for a while...
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@stephenw10 Were you able to replicate the issue?
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Not yet, the 22.05 testing has taken all my time. However I do think this looks like a real problem. I'll test it as soon as I can.
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@stephenw10 Any luck by now? Confirmed (as it's now a few months later) that my manual backups are still being overwritten.
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No sorry it got pushed to the back of the queue. I'll try and get something done over the weekend.
Steve
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@stephenw10 How's it looking?
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Sorry, the coming release took priority over everything.
I'll try to replicate it as soon as I can.
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@stephenw10 Happy New Year! Have you been able to work on this bug?
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It's going to be after the 23.01 release. That's currently using every development resource.
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@stephenw10 Now that 23.01 has been released is this going to be pushed back again?
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I hope not, let me poke it.....
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Just to be clear has this ever worked for you?
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Ok, this is a backend issue. I also opened a public redmine to track it:
https://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/14167 -
@stephenw10 Sorry, didn't reply in time. I don't recall it ever working as all my manual ACB... backups... disappeared as soon as I hit 100. Appreciate you looking into this and finding the issue on the backend.
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Given what found in the backend I don't think it's worked in quite a while. I'm surprised we haven't seen any more tickets/threads about it really.
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@stephenw10 Well I appreciate you continuing to reply as you could have just written me off... Glad it's getting traction.
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@stephenw10 Me again. Any news?
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It's waiting for dev time to correct the back end. Unfortunately that's extremely limited with the upcoming release of 23.05.1 and 2.7.
I'll reach out and see what sort of timeline we're looking at but I'm not expecting anything soon.
