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Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?

2003-12-24 11:06:37
Subject: Re: gtar always doing fulls with --listed-incremental even if level > 0 ?
From: Gene Heskett <gene.heskett AT verizon DOT net>
To: Scott Mcdermott <smcdermott AT questra DOT com>
Date: Wed, 24 Dec 2003 11:04:13 -0500
On Wednesday 24 December 2003 10:52, Scott Mcdermott wrote:
>Gene Heskett on Wed 24/12 10:47 -0500:
>> 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.
>
>I guess I wasn't clear.  I'm not using SAMBA at all in
>relation to Amanda.  I just happen to be exporting the
>filesystem I'm backing up via SAMBA.

And samba isn't involved with amanda?  I think I'd verify that by 
shutting samba down for the next backup.  Just for grins :)

-- 
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