Had a hard time choosing Problem or Feature - But to me this is more problem than feature request. I also think there was something before similar but related to sharing root of something. But failed to find it.
I will describe this problem as follows:
In the Backup app, you can chose to backup a Cloud Service a Lan or USB. 2 Problems really. 1) Does’t matter what you chose (I’ve looked at all 3 options) you can’t share either the root or more than 1 folder.
I would have to create a separate backup task for each and every folder I want to backup. That would be very time consuming for both me to setup and for ZimaOS to do. Heck, in my example I have files in the root of my onedrive. Impossible to select those.
2) If you select nothing and just click confirm, the backup app changes behind the scene to as if you had selected something. You hit cancel and go back so say change to something else and those options are gone. You can only chose a destination.
Worse it lets you chose destination sortof. Note it lets me chose a folder on sda1, but not click confirm.
And I can reproduce the problem like this:
I went in to backup several times to try doing this with different services.
I might have found a workaround in this situation specifically regarding backing up onedrive.
By backing up a share on the local network from a windows box that has onedrive folder shared I can click the shared folder as the from. This is impossible to backup the cloud service this way.
I also wanted to do this from my Win 11 VM on ZimaOS but trying to mount that share in ZimaOS on Friday was when everything went bad for me on the 16th I think it was.
OK, this is weird. I clicked start, and the screen just sits there. If I click the x it says it won’t be saved. To me it looks like nothing is going on
But so far it has copied almost 60gb of it. But what is weird also is I selected the Onedrive folder as source. and the one drive folder on sda1, and it put a new onedrive folder inside the onedrive folder on sda1. Not ideal but doable.
Hopefully by time it gets done copying the 245gb it will have saved the backup job. I ended up opening another tab and going to zimaos and looked in backups and it does show there now so that is a good sign.
Hey, rest assured. Most of the issues here are known and are in the pipeline of our workflow. I will involve our engineer here to dig more in case missing.
If nothing is selected and the user confirms, it returns an “empty result with nothing selected.”
Issues 2 and 3 will be fixed in version 1.5.1 (by enabling selection of the first level). For issue 1, our current version has not yet addressed it, but you are right that this is a critical issue we must consider.
We will release version 1.5.1 in the near future(10.24 will be release 1.5.1-beta1, 10.31 will be release 1.5.1), and we hope you can help us experience the new version to see if it doesn’t meet your expectations
I toggled the beta option a few days ago, and welcome the opportunity to test the beta. And Yeah I understand the risks. This is still early in my use of it, so nothing too critical yet. But yeah it would be tempting to setup a separate instance for testing.
Followup question, is there any plan in the backup app, to have ‘scheduled backups’? To say have the same backup take place weekly? Daily? Backup only what has changed?
yeah, I noticed that after posting that, it wasn’t obvious to me anywhere that it would be repeated. I’m curious about why not everything is backed up.
File count from the backup info on Zima OS says 139,229 files
Just now I did a properties in windows on both the Onedrive folder it is backing up, and the destination where they are being copied to. Obviously it’s not backing up something in one drive. 114 folders and 450 or so files. And yes the last time Zima checked was yesterday, but I can tell you that this not because of that. I’m 95% sure I didn’t do 1 thing with a new file on onedrive in the last 24 hours. Nor did I add 450 files. But actually I noticed this the day it said it finished.
It’s not really a backup problem, it’s just a difference in how ZimaOS and Windows count files.
ZimaOS backup skips hidden, temporary, or system items (like OneDrive cache and .dat files), while Windows Properties counts everything. That’s why you see a few hundred extra files or folders in the OneDrive view, even though the total size is almost identical.
It’s the same kind of reporting mismatch as the storage usage display, nothing’s missing, just counted differently.
If you want to check exactly what’s different, FreeFileSync is a great free tool for comparing two folders (even across the network) and spotting any missing or changed files.
Due to the SMB connection failure problem before the release last Friday, the release was put on hold, and the SMB connection problem was just fixed yesterday, and it is expected to be released today
Thank you for pointing me to FreeFileSync. It is working incredible. It’s running on a windows box I have that I have all files on device from Onedrive, and is fully doing by direction sync with the share on Zimaos. syncs within 10 seconds of my changing a file.
