Re: [Networker] User file deletions between incrementals
2009-10-29 03:02:04
torsdag 29 oktober 2009 01:59:26 skrev A Darren Dunham:
> On Wed, Oct 28, 2009 at 05:59:06PM -0400, George Sinclair wrote:
> > Hmm ... I was always under the impression that this was not the case, at
> > least not with a browsable recover. I thought the whole point of a
> > browse recover was that NW was supposed to be able to rebuild the
> > directory, or file system, exactly the way it last appeared, so it ought
> > to remove deleted files since the deletion of files gets updated in the
> > client index, assuming, of course, that they were ever backed up.
>
> In the old days, this wasn't possible. An unmodified file wouldn't be
> backed up in an incremental saveset, so the server couldn't distinguish
> between "not modified" and "deleted". Where is the image of the
> filesystem kept that would show file deletions?
What happens here is the Networker tracks the changetime of the directory
(which will change by a deletion in the POSIX compliant setups). If changed,
the directory info was backed up again in its new form. In Windows this has
been a problem as Windows doesn't seem to consider a deletion of a directory a
change :-( and that generated a problem in some versions of Networker. Should
work fine in the more recent Networkers though.
Same thing with a unchanged but renamed file BTW.
Best
Dag
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