> After doing some more tests this morning, I stand enlightened and
> educated.  This thread is probably more information than the original
> poster ever imagined he'd get :-)

I agree.  I did the same tests yesterday, but only as far as mod time
modification and not ctime modification.  I figured that might be a
difference so I held off posting.  I'm glad I did!

> However, I did discover what was getting me confused on this topic.  If
> the inode modification time is prior to the -t argument to the save
> command, the file won't get backed up (for incrementals).  This explains
> the behavior we see on our Symmetrix BCV volumes.  This is at least the
> behavior I see.  My explanation of the behavior is only my guess as to
> why.

Thanks.  This was also unexpected to me.  I thought mtime would be
enough.  (I suppose it may actually be a case of if either is after the
date.)




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