Known Bugs in the Windows (Win32) Client
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The old bug list has been superceded by the Trac bug tracker. The currently open bugs for Windows are:
- #13
- Fix file locking on Windows
- #14
- Fix large file issues on Windows
- #16
- Restore deleted directories may fail
- #17
- List files using wildcards
- #53
- Comparing root directory locations does not work under Windows
- #56
- Windows: User can polute restore directory by adding a trailing backslash to the restore destination
- #65
- Some file attributes under Windows are not backed up
- #66
- Windows ACL support
The following open bugs are not Windows-specific but may apply to Windows too:
- #4
- Port Box Backup to AIX
- #6
- Contribute code: SMTP client, HTTP server, Database drivers, Web app framework
- #7
- Improve restore speed on local repositories
- #8
- Improve handling of directories with many files
- #20
- bbackupctl reload reports prior settings
- #45
- File diff performance patch (reduced disk IO and wall time
- #46
- bbackupd only ever saves reverse diffs, corrupted files on store may be unrecoverable
- #47
- Account numbers greater than 2^31 (0x7fffffff) do not work correctly
- #48
- Locations that don't exist on first run are never tried again
- #49
- ID map (rename tracking) broken since [288]
- #50
- No way to capture stderr under Windows
- #51
- No way to force bbackupd to re-upload files under Windows
- #52
- Unable to control the maintenance of old vs. deleted files
- #54
- Locations not found on disk (e.g. unmounted filesystems) cannot be protected
- #55
- Should store and preserve directory timestamps
- #57
- Create boxbackupresume and other files in DataDirectory
- #58
- bbackupquery connection timeout results in error message, should be more graceful
- #59
- Inconsistent treatment of NotifyScript between Box Backup and Boxi
- #60
- Case sensitivity between bbstored-certs and Boxi
- #61
- File statistics: Log the number of uploaded files in addition to "total file size uploaded"
- #62
- Backups of deleted files may be removed very quickly by housekeeping
- #63
- Support hard links in directories
A list of bugs fixed in each release is here.
