Re: [Networker] Why large incrementals on MS?

On Win32 [clients], you will find that the archive bit is not reset on
any file that has a "modified date" that is earlier than the "created
date". (I'll not go into how this happens.) I will occasionally run the
following script just after a backup completes to find any file that has
its archive bit set.  By modifying the script's output, I will reset the
archive bit of the offending files.

ckab.cmd
========
   @echo off

   if (%2) == () goto SYNTAX

   if not exist \\%1\%2$\* echo ERROR: \\%1\%2: does not exist.
   if not exist \\%1\%2$\* goto END

   echo Working...

   attrib  \\%1\%2$\* /s | grep ^^A > %TEMP%\attrib_%1_%2.txt
2>%TEMP%\attrib_%1_%2.error.txt
   echo.
   echo Done.
   echo.

   goto END

:SYNTAX
   echo.
   echo USAGE: %0 ^<machine^> ^<volume^>
   echo.
   echo    where   ^<machine^>     is the name of the machine containing
   echo                            the volume you wish to check, and
   echo.
   echo            ^<volume^>      is the volume you wish to check, without
   echo                            the following colon (:), e.g., "C", not
   echo                            "C:".
   echo.

:END
========


George Sinclair wrote:

Hi,

We've been noticing that a specific MS NT machine is backing up a large
quantity of data during incrementals -- much more than we would expect.
The other thing we've noticed is that the size of the savesets always
seems to be the same for these incrementals. However, the size of these
incrementals, while they are bigger than we would think, are still much
smaller than the fulls, so that's good.

<snip>
--
     _
  __| | __ _ _  __ ___    | David M. DesRosiers
 / _' |/ _' | \/  / _ \   | MIT Lincoln Laboratory <http://www.ll.mit.edu>
| (_| | (_| |    /  __/   | 244 Wood Street
 \__,_|\__,_|\__/ \____@  | Lexington MA 02420-9108
              ll.mit.edu  | USA


--
Note: To sign off this list, send a "signoff networker" command via email
to listserv AT listmail.temple DOT edu or visit the list's Web site at
http://listmail.temple.edu/archives/networker.html where you can
also view and post messages to the list.
=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=*=