Comment by darkteflon
1 month ago
This is a great app! Thanks, I bought it. I'm backing up to a network share over SMB. Just wanted to let you know that the error message in the event that the share becomes unmounted during a backup is a bit obscure: it just says "pdb.sqlite" doesn't exist. Stopping and restarting the backup fixes it. Might be helpful to provide some clearer error handling / messaging and guidance for disappearing network shares?
Thanks or the detailed feedback.
You’re right about that error message. What’s happening is that when the SMB share gets unmounted, the app can no longer access its SQLite database (pba.sqlite), and the resulting error isn’t very user-friendly. I agree it would be much clearer to explicitly detect a missing or unmounted network share and provide guidance.
I’ve added this to my list of things to improve. Thanks again for taking the time to report it — feedback like this is super helpful.
My pleasure - much appreciated and thanks for being so responsive.
I’ll just add in here a sneaky humble request for graceful automatic pausing and restarting as network shares (or other volumes?) (dis-)appear - although I imagine that one’s a bit trickier to implement.
All the best! Very satisfied user. Great replacement for the script + cron job I was using before.