On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, at 8:45:21 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote:

> If the date on the file is earlier than the previous full,
> the file will not be backed up.  This is true even if the file did not
> exist previously.  The most common case for this to happen is when you
> copy files from one computer to another.  The next full backup will get
> everything.

Thanks for the information. This eases my mind about that part of the
problem, but I still need to find a way to handle the critical system
directories. Apparently the current version of Samba, unlike some of the
earlier ones, refuses to open system areas -- or is this a case of Windows
refusing external access to them, even by members of the Administrators
group? If it's the latter, perhaps I could use Windows' native backup
capability to copy the content to a non-system area that Samba could
access, although that seems like a dreadful kludge and waste of virtual
disk space...

-- 
Jim Kyle
mailto:jim AT jimkyle DOT com


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