On Sat, Apr 14, 2012 at 11:08 AM, Alexander Maringer
<maringer AT maringer-it DOT de> wrote:
> Hi backuppc list,
>
> I have a strange problem with the backuppc archive. Every week on sunday
> night, there is the full backup. The other days there is only a
> incremental one. Backups always run from 1 am to 5 am.
>
> But every week at saturday night (from 1 am to 5 am) "stat" tells me,
> that there is a change in the hard link and the original file (directory
> pc and cpool). But the modification date is unchanged. Can anybody tell
> me, what is changed at this point? Because I make a tar of the backuppc
> directory every morning and I only take a full archive once a month, but
> every saturday the incremental image is as big as the full dump.
>

I don't understand any part of this.   Stat will show that directories
change when the count of links changes.  And the size of the whole
archive shouldn't ever change greatly once the number of saved backups
stablizes.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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