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The creation of a restoring point as been requested and will be initiated soon. But nothing happens :shrug:

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Assessment

Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
25/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
php

Research direction

The issue names no files, tests, or entry points. Reproduce restoring-point creation on Nextcloud 28.0.4 with the destination on an SMB share, then inspect the available logs and backup activity; done when the operation starts successfully or reports a useful failure.

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Description

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No clue what I'm doing wrong. But this never runs...
There are no logs whatsoever.

The backup is meant to go to a smb share which is the same setup practice being used for other shares and folders in the same instance.

Running 28.0.4 latest backup app.

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