Known Bugs in the Windows (Win32) Client

The old bug list has been superceded by the Trac bug tracker.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

#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

#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

#62

Backups of deleted files may be removed very quickly by housekeeping

#63

Support hard links in directories

#68

More details when ReadError occurs

#69

CRTL+C closes bbackupquery console window under Windows

#70

Non-ascii character cause error for notifyscript path

#74

Reconnect bbackupquery automatically, or at least have a "connect" commadn to do so from inside

#77

Min verbosity switch broken for bbackupquery

#78

Error level for "bbackupquery.exe -u"

A list of bugs fixed in each release is here.