On Nov 15, 2012, at 9:52 PM, Wouter van Marle wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I have a big problem with Bacula and the backup of my Cyrus mail store:
> it is backing up way too much.
> 
> When doing incremental it's supposed to look at modify time (which for
> many mails - one file per e-mail - is months or years past), but it
> appears to look at the access time instead.
> 
> Result: yesterday I moved a big mail folder with subfolders, causing the
> access time but not the modify time of all contents to change, and now
> Bacula is backing up everything. Looking at the restore function in
> bconsole, I see the file time given is the access time, not the modify
> time.
> 
> When doing `ls -la` I see the original modify time, long time ago.
> When doing `ls -lu` I see the access time, which is the time these mail
> boxes were moved (yesterday).
> And when doing `dir` in `bconsole` the time that I see is the access
> time; not the modify time!
> 
> How to stop this unnecessary backup? It's annoying and wasting disk
> space.


You should include the Job {} in question, and any JobDefs in use.

I suspect you are doing accurate backups.

-- 
Dan Langille - http://langille.org


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