On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 2:40pm, Nina Pham wrote

> I have problem doing incremental backup  on mount file.  I'm using FC2 
> systems. The server mount to some files and does incremental backup 

How does the server "mount to" the files?  The canonical way to use amanda 
is to install it on the client.

> everyday. The proplem is the ctime  some how got changed when backing 
> up, so the files endup archived even though it's not been touched. Any idea?
> Thanks.

Amanda uses dump and/or tar to actually get the bits off the disk.  
Neither of those should touch ctime.

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Joshua Baker-LePain
Department of Biomedical Engineering
Duke University