DaveTheCoder
DaveTheCoder
"Show hidden files" is in the View menu.
I see your point. Apparently the View menu's "Show hidden files" toggle (or Ctrl-H) is a global setting that affects all the file/folder lists, but that may not be obvious...
It's working well for me too. I've only found one problem, which I described in the "Weekly snapshots not being retained" issue.
I have backintime scheduled to run every hour. As long as I'm using my computer for more than an hour at a time, that gives me adequate snapshots.
https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/wiki/FAQ#how-can-i-check-if-my-snapshots-are-incremental-using-hard-links
Looks like a permissions issue. The user under which BackInTime is running doesn't have the privileges to use chgrp, or the user-group that BackInTime recorded for the backed-up files doesn't...
Try `/home/me/.AppName/files` to exclude the folder and its contents, or `/home/me/.AppName/files/*` to exclude the folder's contents but not the (empty) folder. `.AppName/files` and `.AppName/files/*` may work too, but they would...
I think the include/exclude patterns are simply passed along to the _rsync_ command, so that command's behavior determines how they work.
I had to edit the code and add some "logger.debug" calls to figure out what's going on. https://github.com/bit-team/backintime/issues/1094
>I am afraid without existing snapshots nothing will happen during the test run and once snapshots exist they are "smartly removed" when BiT starts so a "test run" would be...