BackupPC-users

Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups, rsync and the exchange mailbox store

2013-04-24 00:58:41
Subject: Re: [BackupPC-users] Incremental backups, rsync and the exchange mailbox store
From: <backuppc AT kosowsky DOT org>
To: "General list for user discussion, questions and support" <backuppc-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net>
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:56:29 -0400
Adam Goryachev wrote at about 09:59:23 +1000 on Wednesday, April 24, 2013:
 > John Habermann <jhabermann AT cook.qld.gov DOT au> wrote:
 > 
 > >Hi Adam
 > >
 > >On Tue, 23 Apr 2013 01:18:07 +1000
 > >Adam Goryachev <mailinglists AT websitemanagers.com DOT au> wrote:
 > >
 > >> On 22/04/13 06:46, John Habermann wrote:
 > >> > Hi 
 > >> > I have an exchange 2003 server which I have set up in backuppc
 > >using
 > >> > Michael's backuppc rsync based client scripts
 > >> > http://www.michaelstowe.com/backuppc/ and it appears to be working
 > >> > fine with the exception that the mail store .edb and .stm files are
 > >> > only being backed up when a Full Backup Job runs. 
 > >> >
 > >> > I am assuming this is because the date modified file size of these
 > >> > files is not changing as I have about 15 GB or so of space
 > >> > available in in the priv1 mailbox store so its size is not
 > >> > increasing with current day to day usage. 

Why wouldn't the file modification flag be set if the files are
modified?
Or is this a brain-dead "feature" of NTFS or MSFT Exchange?

On *nix filesystems, one needs to work "extra-hard" to change a file without
changing its mod time -- indeed, this is presumably the entire purpose
of the mod time -- to know when files were last modified...


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