Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.3 maintain ctime on restored files?

On 01/13/2010 20:36, Dan Langille wrote:

Steve Costaras wrote:

Ok, found out why when I do a restore of files bacula keeps thinking that they are 'new' and will back them up again. Seems that bacula changes ctime to the time of the restore of the file not the original ctime. atime & mtime are properly set on the files at restore but not ctime.

It seems? Have you verified by looking at ctime?

What OS?

Yes, sorry for the ambiguity. ctime is set to the time of the restore of the particular file. atime/mtime show that the times are set to the original file's times.

OS is linux
Linux loki 2.6.24-26-server #1 SMP Tue Dec 1 18:26:43 UTC 2009 x86_64 GNU/Linux

file system is XFS; using SQLlite3 as the database but that shouldn't matter here.

I didn't see anything in the on-line docs, is there a flag in the fileset directive to keep ALL time values (atime, mtime, ctime) to be exactly as they were on the original file when doing a restore?

(I did see the keepatime flag but from reading that only affects atime?)

"Note, if you use this feature, when Bacula resets the access time, the change time (st_ctime) will automatically be modified by the system, so on the next incremental job, the file will be backed up even if it has not changed. As a consequence, you will probably also want to use mtimeonly = yes as well as keepatime (thanks to Rudolf Cejka for this tip). "

I saw that comment which is why I mentioned it as what I'm seeing is the opposite. I do not have keepatime set at all and it IS being set to current time at the time of restore.

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FileSet {
Name = "loki-FileSet"
Ignore FileSet Changes = yes
Include {
    Options {
      accurate=mcs1
      checkfilechanges=yes
      hardlinks=yes
      noatime=yes
      _onefs_=yes
      recurse=yes
      signature=SHA1
      sparse=yes
      verify=pns1
    }
    File = /
    File = /boot
    File = /home
    File = /var/ftp
}
Exclude {
    File = /cdrom
    File = /dev
    File = /lost+found
    File = /media
    File = /opt/bacula/var/bacula/spool
    File = /opt/bacula/var/bacula/working
    File = /proc
    File = /sys
    File = /tmp
    File = /var/ftp/tmp
    File = /var/lock
    File = /var/run
    File = /var/tmp
    File = /.fsck
    File = /.journal
}
}
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