BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 2003 via smb copy only directories

2008-07-03 11:09:30
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Windows 2003 via smb copy only directories
From: Les Mikesell <les AT futuresource DOT com>
To: Neimar Volpini <neimar AT estobel.com DOT br>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2008 10:09:01 -0500
Neimar Volpini wrote:
> Craig, its an incremental backup however the files weren't copied in any 
> previous backup.

Are the timestamps on the files earlier than your last full backup?

> Well, I just removed all the backups for this host and tried again, for 
> my surprise it works ... very strange because I didn't change anything.

The smb and tar backup methods just look at the file timestamps in 
incremental runs.  There are many ways of creating files with old 
timestamps - or perhaps the system time was wrong when they were added.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com


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