AAAARRRGGGG! AIS Backup deleting files?
Posted: Thu Dec 05, 2002 8:59 am
Hi,
I just had something astoundingly annoying happen - AIS Backup deleted a bunch of files without any warning.
I have a standard backup script, which I set up when I purchased AIS Backup a couple of weeks ago. It worked fine the first time I ran it (as a test), butt was using C:\Backup as a staging folder, and I try to keep things fairly tidy, so I changed the script to (instead) point to C:\Incoming\Backup. I use C:\Incoming as a "general" dumping box for things I haven't got around to filing yet.
This morning, when I ran the script, it promptly started to delete everything in around C:\Incoming - including all the other folders! After a few seconds I managed to kill it with Task Manager, but not before it had managed to wipe out over 5Gb of files. Not funny. I don't think it got anything irreplacable, but obviously I'm not going to run it again until I know what went wrong - for all I know, it would have continued and wiped out the whole disk!
Any ideas how this could have happened? I'm guessing my files are toast, and not just moved to somewhere out of the way, as my disk "free space" has gone up by 5Gb or so. I'm running XP, fully patched, and AIS Backup 1.6.1.150.
Cheers,
Tim.
I just had something astoundingly annoying happen - AIS Backup deleted a bunch of files without any warning.
I have a standard backup script, which I set up when I purchased AIS Backup a couple of weeks ago. It worked fine the first time I ran it (as a test), butt was using C:\Backup as a staging folder, and I try to keep things fairly tidy, so I changed the script to (instead) point to C:\Incoming\Backup. I use C:\Incoming as a "general" dumping box for things I haven't got around to filing yet.
This morning, when I ran the script, it promptly started to delete everything in around C:\Incoming - including all the other folders! After a few seconds I managed to kill it with Task Manager, but not before it had managed to wipe out over 5Gb of files. Not funny. I don't think it got anything irreplacable, but obviously I'm not going to run it again until I know what went wrong - for all I know, it would have continued and wiped out the whole disk!
Any ideas how this could have happened? I'm guessing my files are toast, and not just moved to somewhere out of the way, as my disk "free space" has gone up by 5Gb or so. I'm running XP, fully patched, and AIS Backup 1.6.1.150.
Cheers,
Tim.