Veritas-bu

[Veritas-bu] Incrementals turning into full

2005-11-15 17:42:13
Subject: [Veritas-bu] Incrementals turning into full
From: cballowe AT gmail DOT com (Charles Ballowe)
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:42:13 -0600
I've seen this on windows file servers when one of the admins makes achange to 
permissions at the base of a directory tree. The permissionschange sets the 
file as needing a backup. It's really annoying whenthey make a change at the 
root of the filesystem and I end up doing a300G incremental.
-Charlie
On 11/15/05, Lewick, Taylor <tlewick AT hrblock DOT com> wrote:>>>> I am seeing 
this same problem but only on a Windows Cluster Server?  Its> serving as a file 
server so I know there is no way 50-80% of the data is> changing daily but that 
is percentage of the fulls that the incrementals are> backing up.  Opened a 
case with Veritas, not much to go on right now.>>>  I have tried the cumulative 
incrementals using both archival bit and mtime.>  Not running Volume shadow 
services on the client, media servers are all> Unix at 4.5 FP 8?  Yes both full 
and incremental schedules are in same> policy.  Sometimes incrementals seem to 
work okay, and sometimes they are> nearly the same size as a full.  Even ran an 
incremental, then went into> restore pane and selected the incremental and 
looked at all of the files in> a directory and all of them were over 1 year old 
by modify time?>>>  What gives?>>