Suggestion to improve dealing with file errors during backup

[Xavron]

Suggestion to improve dealing with file errors during backup

[Xavron]

And, btw, I know there's exclude, VSS, etc. That's not the point here. I know some people still won't get the point.

[Xavron]

I see the Task Scheduler backup run does look like it compacts file errors in the log for easier viewing. At least its an improvement that cuts down the time wasted. Still, the rest pertains.

*or perhaps from lack of files to backup on following backups.

[deajan]

1/ As long as the backup did not succeed in doing what was asked, it's considered failed. Nobody wants to rely on incoherent backups. What you consider "completley wrong" is an assumption of your usecase where you don't care about some files. Now imagine backing up simple documents, and an important file isn't backed up because it was open and VSS failed, but your backup software tells you that everything is okay. That's my definition of "completley wrong".

2/ NPBackup's main target is the system administrator that will backup servers, and probably VIP laptops. The latter one might not know or even care what a log file is, but the administrator will.
The end user's main candy here is a nice GUI to restore files without the need to call for the sysadmins.

And yes, of course backups should always be run in background (hence the priority settings btw), since one cannot rely on the user to launch them periodically, manually via the GUI.
Since the user won't be aware if the backup suceed as background task, it's the sysadmin's task to verify backup coherence, hence the existence of prometheus support so the sysadmin can check hundreds of npbackup clients by a single status panel.

Thus being said, NPBackup is currently being improved to be able to act like a privileged orchestrator.
While refactoring, I also decided to improve the GUI to keep track of house keeping errors in a quick way.
My last commit afaa055 actually enables the backup core to send both logs and errors in separate channels, for better readability, and errors will be shown separately from logs.
Perhaps that will solve the issue you describe.

3/ Whatever GUI option with checkboxes you're talking about, I don't get it. Be more clear.

[Xavron]

I see you see things differently. Closing.