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Arthur Emerson III wrote:
> Dimitrios <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> but, when i run a Differential backup the next day, it backs up
>> nearly 2GB of data!! (in 6,387 files), which seems rather strange
>> because i'm sure that the server hasn't been used that much to
>> warrant changes in 6,387 files or nearly 2GB of data.
>
> As someone had pointed out earlier in the day for a question
> about troubleshooting filesets, the following command will list
> all of the files that were backed up in a particular job:
>
> list files jobid=id
>
> You may find a bug in your fileset definitions, or perhaps the
> target system keeps a lot of log files around. Remember, adding
> just one byte to a log file means that it needs to be backed
> up in an incremental/differential backup. Outlook .PST files
> and Unix/Linux MBOX-format mailboxes are tape-fillers for just
> this very reason in differential/incremental backups...
Another common problem is timestamps in the future. These will be backed
up every time. I guess maybe there ought to be a software solution to this.
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