Author: George Sinclair <George.Sinclair AT NOAA DOT GOV>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:03:36 -0400
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 t
Hey George. Yeah, sounds like you're being hit by the archive bit thing. If you set a system environment variable on such a win32 machine NSR_AVOID_ARCHIVE to a non-zero value (i.e. "1" or "true") yo
Author: Dave Mussulman <mussulma AT CS.UIUC DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:23:33 -0500
Search the list; this has been brought up multiple times before. I don't remember the reasoning behind it, but only a full backup resets the archive bit. Otherwise, an incremental backup will backup
Author: "Rohrich, James" <James.Rohrich AT UOP DOT COM>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 10:54:55 -0500
Some additional notes. 1. If this is a server where Exchange PST files may be stored (email personal folders from Exchange), all it takes is for a user to open up outlook and the archive bit is turne
George, Yes, we see this when some Windows boxes get large amount of data copied to them with the archive bit set. Networker does not clear the archive bit on files like this until a full backup is r
Author: "David M. DesRosiers" <dave AT LL.MIT DOT EDU>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 16:50:16 -0400
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 occasio