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[Veritas-bu] mtime vs archive bit [NTFS backups]

2006-04-30 23:55:32
Subject: [Veritas-bu] mtime vs archive bit [NTFS backups]
From: alex.wilkinson AT dsto.defence.gov DOT au (Wilkinson, Alex)
Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 13:25:32 +0930 
Howdy all,

We are seriously looking at changing our incremental backups based on timestamp
(mtime) rather than the archive bit.

Are there any "gotchas" with doing this ? For example does a virus scanner
change the mtime inode on an NTFS fs ?

What do other people do ? And why ?

Cheers

 -aW
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