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[Peter Surňák <662404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Public bug reported:

What I did:
1. created "default" profile to /backup
2. made backup (bkp_1: 10.8 GB full)
--- about an hour later ---
3. created "another" profile to /backup (and added few excludes to default)
4. made backup (bkp_2: 100 MB inc for "default" with base being bkp_1; bkp_3 1.2 GB for "another" with base being bkp_2)
--- about 15 minutes later ---
5. made backup (bkp_4: 6.7 GB inc for "default" with base being bkp_3; bkp_5 1.2 GB for "another" with base being bkp_4)

What is wrong:
Obviously nothing changed in files which would result in 6.7 GB increment (in case of "default") or 1.2 increment (in case of "another"). The problem is wrong base. Each backup takes the other as a base and since do not have anything in common, virtually full backups are made all the time.
The problem is that two independent backups in the same directory are taken as bases for each other.

This can be counted as wrong usage, I agree, but I think program should somehow check for this and at least warn user that such setting may lead to bad results (yep, backups exist, but not very incremental, so disk space would eat pretty quickly).
Of course, I will change my setup and re-backup everything, but the point is there could be other users with similar "wrong" setup and not knowing what goes on under the hood of "simple backup".

Note:
I did not try to restore using this setup, but I think it could be pretty dangerous.

System:
Ubuntu 10.10 64bit
sbackup 0.11.3 - comes from distribution repository

** Affects: sbackup
     Importance: Undecided
         Status: New

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wrong base for incremental backup
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/662404
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