Colin Law

Thanks. I looked for that script earlier but couldn't find it. Will have another look.

Further information, it appears that it is all the files with permissions r--r--r-- that it is getting wrong, at least having looked at a selection of failing ones they all...

Yet further information, it is to do with r--r--r-- files. It is necessary to close BiT and re-open it to trigger the problem, and in fact with those files often,...

Sadly the maintainer appears to have lost interest, or suffered some awful fate, or something so unless someone else steps up to the plate then we are stuck with what...

Presumably a side effect of that is that it does not save the permissions, group or owner. That may or may not be a serious issue.

@jns is it actually backing them up again (and consuming extra disc space) or is it just changing the file permissions, which takes time but does not use any extra...

@Germar I just ran a test on Ubuntu 18.04 backing up to local drive. I created a new backup with version 1.1.24 on default settings then upgraded (via the bit...

@jns I can confirm that procedure works for me on Ubuntu, thanks. I had to first install zsh to run it (which is no big deal), it would be nice...

@wiregrasscoder Do the problematic files have unusual permissions in the source? I am seeing it with r--r--r--. If so perhaps you are falling over issue #994 I would also be...

That would indeed be a very useful feature.