Hi
Paul hit the nail on the head.
It seem the administrator of that machine was running a find over the
directories which updated the ctime of all the files.
Thanks Paul.
Anthony
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Anthony Worrall wrote:
> We have a filesytem which contians files that are basically static. However
> when they are backed up the incrementals are almost as big as the full
backups.
...
> This happens with dump and gntar backups. If I do a find on the filesystem it
> claims that no files have been modified in the last 90 days.
>
> advisor1:/tmp/amanda # find /advisor/video/* -type f -mtime -90 -ls
Check also the ctime (i-node change time):
find /advisor/video/* -type f -ctime -90
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