Darien Hager wrote: > On Feb 5, 2007, at 11:46 AM, Arno Lehmann wrote: > > >> Hi, >> >> On 2/5/2007 6:35 PM, Robert Nelson wrote: >> >>> Incremental backups are based solely on the modification date of >>> the file. >>> If the file modification date is later than the last full or >>> differential >>> backup then the file will be included in the incremental backup. >>> >>> Most likely these files have bogus modification dates sometime in the >>> future. >>> >> Or they are accessed by a virus scanner... see the NoAtime and >> MTimeOnly >> directives in the fileset options. >> > > Potential off-topic-ness here... What if there were a Fileset options > directive similar to "verify" which would apply for non-Full Backup > jobs instead of having individual options like "mtimeonly"? So > "diffcriteria" (or some other name) would by default would be mc for > st_mtime and st_ctime. If necessary it could be overridden to cause > the File Daemon to compute and compare a hash, etc? Probably an > option you wouldn't want to mess with too much, but for certain > groups of files it may be handy.
Why not just fix the problem with the files, instead of creating a configuration that has to be set when such problems are encountered? I would want to know why they were being flagged as modified. And, if it were a bogus modification date, how that had happened. --------------- Chris Hoogendyk - O__ ---- Systems Administrator c/ /'_ --- Biology & Geology Departments (*) \(*) -- 140 Morrill Science Center ~~~~~~~~~~ - University of Massachusetts, Amherst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --------------- Erdös 4 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Using Tomcat but need to do more? Need to support web services, security? Get stuff done quickly with pre-integrated technology to make your job easier. Download IBM WebSphere Application Server v.1.0.1 based on Apache Geronimo http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=120709&bid=263057&dat=121642 _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
