On 28/01/2010 15:23, John Stoffel wrote:
> 
> Ben> No suggestions?
> Ben> Can someone tell me how to list the files that were backed up? Even
> Ben> better, how to find out _why_ they were backed up?
> 
> list files jobid=#####
> 
> should give you a list of files backed up for a job.

Should I expect it to be empty for aborted jobs?

>  Then you can
> look at them in more detail using regular unix tools to see what's
> going on here.
> 
> I'd also recommend that you setup a small test client area where you
> can play and do backups.
> 
> I wonder if the NAS box updates mtimes when a file is accessed.  Or if
> you change something trivial like a directory permission, etc.

No, it seems not.

> So, using the 'list files jobid=####' from above, and grep, you can
> look at all the files in a directory at both the time the full was
> run, and the time the incr was run, and look at what gets backedup.
> 
> You should also be able to query the catalog directly using SQL
> commands, but that will take more work, and should probably be done
> once you have a more targetted set of file(s) and dir(s) to look at.
> 
> John
> 
> 


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