On Fri, Jun 02, 2006 at 11:10:10PM +0200, Paul Bijnens wrote:
> Jon LaBadie schreef:
> >I'm getting dumps that are the same size regardless
> >of dump level.  Happening on all clients, all DLEs.
> >The file's timestamps (mtime and ctime) and inode nums
> >are not changing, which could cause them to appear in
> >incremental dumps.
> >
> >I'm stumped, anyone experience this before?
> 
> Never seen that.
> 
> 
> >
> >Some other queries,
> >
> >In my gnutar-lists directory, all the files are named
> >"xxx.new".  Looking at an abandoned installation on
> >another server, most of the files have the ".new"
> >stripped off.  How should the files appear?
> 
> There shouldn't be .new files when the run is finished.
> Maybe you have permission problems on the files,
> resulting in not being able to "mv" the .new file?
> 

That is good to know, I never looked at the gnutar-list
directory before.  But I considered permissions.  Look
alright to me:

$ ls -la
total 3728
drwxr-xr-x   2 amandabackup disk    4096 Jun  2 04:37 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 amandabackup disk    4096 May 26 15:20 ..
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk    5047 May 31 03:30 bigcowHOME_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk    5047 Jun  2 03:29 bigcowHOME_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk    5047 May 22 01:18 bigcowHOME_2.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk     821 May 28 03:25 bigcowLOCAL_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk     821 Jun  2 03:20 bigcowLOCAL_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk      52 May 27 03:03 bigcowOPT_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk      52 Jun  2 03:03 bigcowOPT_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk    6507 Jun  2 03:12 bigcowROOT-HOME_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk    6507 Jun  1 03:11 bigcowROOT-HOME_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk  149413 May 29 03:53 bigcowROOT-MISC_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk  149413 Jun  2 03:41 bigcowROOT-MISC_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk 1615513 Jun  1 05:42 bigcowUSR_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk 1615513 Jun  2 05:42 bigcowUSR_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk   37205 May 28 04:42 bigcowVAR_0.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk   37205 Jun  1 04:38 bigcowVAR_1.new
-rw-------   1 amandabackup disk   37205 Jun  2 04:37 bigcowVAR_2.new

And the mod dates reflect when those levels were last backed up.

Could the lack of any files without the ".new" be a reason
why my incrementals are actually full dumps?


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