On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:00, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
>Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 09:55 -0500:
>> What filesystem on the target, and what linkage/transport,
>> samba or amanda client?
>
>Amanda server is on the same machine as the client, it's
>backing up to itself with straight GNU tar.  FS is ext3.
>However, it is exported by SAMBA, if that has anything to do
>with it, but since neither ctime or mtime is changing, I
>don't see how it could.

AFAIK, samba doesn't support those times.  So you will, if samba is 
the transport from client to server, get a full backup of everything 
everytime.  Or at least thats been my experience with the samba 2.x 
family, and I have not yet installed 3.0, based on the if it ain't 
broke, don't fix it theory.  To me, what I use samba for isn't broke.  
But I sure don't let it get in an amanda path, for exactly that 
reason.

But thats an interesting linkage, doing it all on the same machine.
IF I understand correctly.  However, just exporting the filesystem 
with samba should not affect a properly installed amanda.

me goes off scratching head to fix breakfast... Need caffiene too

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