https://samnicholls.net The Exciting Adventures of Sam Mon, 10 Jan 2022 13:17:22 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.7.5 101350222 https://samnicholls.net/2022/01/10/duplicati-not-a-valid-win32-filetime/ https://samnicholls.net/2022/01/10/duplicati-not-a-valid-win32-filetime/#respond Mon, 10 Jan 2022 12:47:12 +0000 https://samnicholls.net/?p=2451 I diagnosed this by using the “Live” log, starting the broken backup again and observing the error is thrown after the Backend event: List log entry. I’m using samba to backup parts of my Windows machine to a server in my house using the samba protocol. From the server I listed the target backup directory with ls -lutr (list, using access time, sort and reverse); and immediately noticed several blocks from the last successful backup had an access time from the year 30828!

I touched the affected files to give them a more sensible access time and the backup from my Windows machine was able to complete successfully. If I ever discover how this happened in the first place, I will update this post. In the meantime, I hope this is helpful to someone else as searching for help on the issue only raised old problems with local file backups.

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