Jeff writes:
> > The md5sum for the root level attrib (i.e., the attrib file at the
> > level of pc/machine/attrib) is wrong if:
> > 1. There are at least 2 shares
> > 2. The attrib entries for each of the shares has changed since the
> > last backup (e.g., if the share directory has it's mtime modified
>
> OK. I found the bug. NOTE THIS BUG AFFECTS EVERYBODY WHO IS BACKING UP
> MORE THAN ONE SHARE -- i.e., everybody backing up more than one file
> has such pool errors though they should not effect data integrity,
> only pooling efficiency.
Nice detective work! Your explanation is 100% right.
> 4. Maybe the best approach would be to modify the loop so it skips
> over all instances of the base attrib file until the last one.
I've applied your patch #4, with one slight change:
> @shareattrib=($1, $2, "$CurrDumpDir/$3");
instead of
> @shareattrib=($1, $2, $3);
Thanks,
Craig
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