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Re: [Veritas-bu] Resetting the archive bit on windows backups

2010-03-23 23:49:26
Subject: Re: [Veritas-bu] Resetting the archive bit on windows backups
From: David Stanaway <david AT stanaway DOT net>
To: veritas-bu AT mailman.eng.auburn DOT edu
Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2010 22:48:10 -0500
You could test behaviour pretty easily.

We do TIR (with move detection) backups which behave differently (And
better IMHO).

On 3/23/2010 1:52 PM, Donaldson, Mark wrote:
> This occurred to me on the way to work.  Does the NB client for windows
> reset all the archive bits on files after the backup's completion?
> That's the only thing that makes sense as I see it.  If it reset the bit
> after each file, then a last-minute failure of the backup would not let
> the next incremental backup what failed the previous run.
>
> -M
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