Hello Everybody, I read somewhere in this list, that there had been flaws in the detection if files have changed on windows clients. If you move a whole folder windows will not set the timestamps correctly.
I noticed the following: I did a fullbackup on a laptop, the day after I used the laptop normally especially sending and getting mail. On the next day I did an incremental backup, but Inbox.msf (Mozilla Thunderbird) had not been backup'd this time, so I took a closer look at the file. Windows gave me three timestamps "created", "changed", "last accessed" and "changed" was closely too "created" -- ok, blame windows or mozilla or whoever, but not bacula. (Last accessed had been right.) But now I deleted all my backups, and tried the "estimate" command in the "console", to see what would be backup'd this time. And the timestamps bacula listed together with Inbox.msf was the timestamp windows gave me as "created" timestamp. Had this been due to it was the first (database reinstalled) backup? I checked another file, which was reported by windows with correct "changed" timestamp, but in the bacula "console" listing of "estimate", there was again the timestamp listed which corresponds to the window "created" timestamp and not the "changed". Please, I'm not a programmer, so don't throw peaky details at me, but what is an incremental backup worth, if files get backup'd up according to their "created" timestamp? So maybe it's better not to rely on backups of windows clients with bacula? mfg Eric PS.: I don't want to be a spoilsport, but saving users mail in a backup is a serious thing. :(
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