On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 08:27:31AM +0000, Davina Treiber wrote:
> Think about this a minute George.
> Running an incremental requires that the server knows the details of
> each file that was backed up in the full, thus you MUST have a CFI
> available. If you turn off indexing you simply cannot do
> incrementals or level backups.

That didn't use to be true, because the client 'save' process wasn't
able to get access to the indexes anyway.  Instead, it was just passed a
timestamp and pulled out data that appeared to be after that date.  The
timestamp could have come from the media database.

I'm less certain how this behavior might have changed in more recent
versions.

> Why would you do this anyway? You might save a miniscule amount of
> disk space but disk is cheap these days. The saving is hardly worth
> it when you consider the cost to your employer of your time to
> micro-manage this. If I was you I would just turn the indexing back
> on and stop worrying about it.

Agree.  I'd be interested in what the goal is here.

-- 
Darren

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