On Fri, Nov 2, 2012 at 10:45 AM, Jim Stark <jstarkjhealey AT gmail DOT com> 
wrote:
>>
> backuppc documentation says: "For SMB and tar, BackupPC uses the
> modification time (mtime) to determine which files have changed since the
> last lower-level backup. That means SMB and tar incrementals are not able to
> detect deleted files, renamed files or new files whose modification time is
> prior to the last lower-level backup."
>
> The question: is there any way to have backuppc incrementally backup such
> files, perhaps based on the fact that they do not exist in the full backup
> set?

No, rsync/rsyncd are the only xfer methods where the target side has
any knowledge of the previous backup's contents.  However, if you do
more frequent smb fulls, backuppc will pool the duplicate content
anyway, so you might do that instead of incrementals.

-- 
  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com

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