On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 02:39:50PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
> If you turn of indexing for a pool, what happens if you run an 
> incremental, say, after you've run a full? Will it just run the 
> equivalent of another level full, etc., etc.? Ditto for a numeric?

The client doesn't see the existing indexes in a normal backup anyway,
so it has no effect.

The client just backs up files that have been added or changed since the
timestamp that the servers hands it.  

> Obviously, if this option is turned off then NW isn't going to update 
> the online client index, just the media database, so it would seem that 
> an actual incremental or numeric would not be possible because how would 
> it know what had changed since the last backup without the index 
> entries, and yet you can perform save set recovers wherein you specify 
> an incremental or numeric instance even though you're not browsing.

Timestamp of when the previous full (or other relevant backup).

-- 
Darren

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