Jeff writes:

>  > The md5sum for the root level attrib (i.e., the attrib file at the
>  > level of pc/machine/attrib) is wrong if:
>  > 1. There are at least 2 shares
>  > 2. The attrib entries for each of the shares has changed since the
>  >    last backup (e.g., if the share directory has it's mtime modified
> 
> OK. I found the bug. NOTE THIS BUG AFFECTS EVERYBODY WHO IS BACKING UP
> MORE THAN ONE SHARE -- i.e., everybody backing up more than one file
> has such pool errors though they should not effect data integrity,
> only pooling efficiency.

Nice detective work!  Your explanation is 100% right.

> 4. Maybe the best approach would be to modify the loop so it skips
>    over all instances of the base attrib file until the last one.

I've applied your patch #4, with one slight change:

>                          @shareattrib=($1, $2, "$CurrDumpDir/$3");

instead of

>                          @shareattrib=($1, $2, $3);

Thanks,
Craig

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