I'm not sure I understand the problem, but did you know that a 'skip'
deletes the 'index' of previous saves?  (A 'null' does not.)

The only time you should do a skip is if you never back up the
reference.    


David L. King


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Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2006 10:32 AM
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Subject: [I] [Networker] skip directive and backup levels

If I have 2 groups one of which does a skip or a null for
/disk/filesystemA

If group one that runs at 4am does a skip of /disk/filesystemA but a
level 9 of everything else and group two that runs at 2am does an
incremental backup of /disk/filesystemA

When the second days backups run should group two backup all files that
have changed since ~2am the previous day ? I would expect this to
happen.

The skip happens because filesystemA has a .nsr file at its head with 
+skip: *  (could also be +null: *)
group 2 ignores .nsr files

What looks to be happening is that group one marks that it has done a
level 9 backup of the filesystem with nothing in it and the incremental
is relative to the level 9.

Would it be better is the skip was done from directives instead of a
.nsr file ?

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