https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Backup forum en http://backend.userland.com/rss https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=182#p182 182@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: I posted to the discussion about my own situation -- two folders containing identical files and both 1.44 GB in sizehttps://backupforum.progf.....php?id=47 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:43:51 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=180#p180 180@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: Name    Location    Size    Modified    Created    Last AccessedC:\ProgramData\IDrive\IBCOMMON\    SerTracefile.txt    4 KB    4/7/2020 7:04:11 AM    3/31/2020 9:57:14 AM    4/7/2020 7:04:11 AMC:\ProgramData\IDrive\IBCOMMON\    TraceFile.txt    1 KB    3/9/2020 2:15:48 PM    3/31/2020 9:57:05 AM    3/31/2020 9:57:05 AMC:\ProgramData\IDrive\IBCOMMON\    VSSTraceFile.txt    324 KB    4/7/2020 9:05:19 AM    4/1/2020 10:14:43 AM    4/7/2020 9:05:19 AMC:\ProgramData\IDrive\IBCOMMON\tc\    Tracefile.txt    4,358 KB    4/7/2020 9:05:40 AM    3/31/2020 9:57:14 AM    4/7/2020 9:05:40 AM Tue, 07 Apr 2020 15:10:48 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=179#p179 179@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: Is there a large tracefile.txt file in that folder?There was a discussion about this file last year, although no conclusion was determined. See:https://backupforum.progf.....php?id=47 Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:56:35 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=178#p178 178@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: tcloud wrote:Now I want to know why the IBCOMMON folder on my computer is 1.4 GB in size? Not sure why that would be, mine seems to be about 320 MB. Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:45:59 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=177#p177 177@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: I'll answer my own question ... let me know if there is anything else:When you click "View Logs", choose a log and scroll all the way to the bottom and click on the link "View Entire Log".  This will open the log in NotePad.The path for those files (on my computer) where [user] is your Windows user name :C:\ProgramData\IDrive\IBCOMMONC:\ProgramData\IDrive\IBCOMMON\[user]\Session\BackupNow I want to know why the IBCOMMON folder on my computer is 1.4 GB in size? Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:40:09 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=176#p176 176@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: Where are the log files kept? ...  or, how do you save a log to file? Tue, 07 Apr 2020 14:20:07 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=27#p27 27@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: A new backup completion status has been introduced in the logs, 'Success*'.This appears to be used when all file backups have succeeded apart from:1. File missing errors. (See post above for related setting - the GUI text is now incorrect!)2. File verification failed - update retained errors. (Exact meaning still unclear but roughly IDrive retained the last version of the file on your IDrive account as the file failed to verify in some way). Sun, 17 Jun 2018 15:12:11 +0100 https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum/viewtopic.php?pid=14#p14 14@https://backupforum.progforums.com/BackupForum Topic: Meaning of terms used in IDrive interface and logs Message: It is a good idea to understand the language in which Idrives speaks to you. Here are a few things IDrive support told me. Support are not necessarily 100% correct, and I may have slightly misunderstood. But hopefull the info will be be a starting point for clarification.IDrive will log the backup as a failure if x% of files present in the backup set (IDrive's list of files to backup) are not found on your hard disk when the backup is runIDrive will log the backup as a failure if x% of files present in the backup set (IDrive's list of files to backup) fail to backup, either because they are missing or for some other reason, when the backup is runNiether value can be set to 0% or unticked. Not even in the settings text file. This is 'by design' according to IDrive.This is the setting that tells IDrive how frequently to update it's backup set. You can also request an immediate update. After such an update if you run a backup there should be no or very few missing files. (It does not check that all files on your disk have backed up correctly).In summary log. According to IDrive support. This means that an open file could not be backed up because Windows volume shadow copy could not take a copy of it, or the copy is corrupt. The previous version has been retained. (This happens I understand when the file is being written to pretty continuously). [I wonder if this is the full story. Maybe IDrive takes a local copy, either via VSS or otherwise. If this copy does not have the same hash as the original file it decides not to upload it. This may happen for a number of reasons including the file being written to] Sat, 19 May 2018 12:07:26 +0100