Others here may answer your question better but I'd thought I jump in and
make you aware of the Networker and the Windows 2000 archive bit;  if the
archive bit gets set in Windows 2000 that file will get backed up forever
until a full backup is done.

We've switched to using the NTFS change journal for our larger systems where
where we don't want giant incrementals every night.


Robert Maiello
Thomson Healthcare

On Mon, 24 Mar 2003 15:57:39 +0200, Emre PEKAR <emre.pekar AT DATA-TEK.COM DOT 
TR>
wrote:

>Dear all,
>Does anybody know how NetWorker decides on the changed files?
>What is the working algorithm behind the incremental backups?
>I know that you can make NetWorker use modify date by a directive,
>or make it use the NTFS change log.
>But in the normal case what does it use?  If it is only the size, than it
>would
>be too simple :)
>
>Best regards,
>
>Richard E. PEKAR
>
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