Dan Langille wrote:
> Dupree, Craig wrote:
>> Looking  through the current HTML manual I see:
>>
>>  
>>
>> “In addition, if you move a directory rather than copy it, the files in 
>> it do not have their modification time (st_mtime) or their attribute 
>> change time (st_ctime) changed. As a consequence, those files will 
>> probably not be backed up by an Incremental or Differential backup which 
>> depend solely on these time stamps. If you move a directory, and wish it 
>> to be properly backed up, it is generally preferable to copy it, then 
>> delete the original.”
>>
>>  
>>
>> and
>>
>>  
>>
>> “As noted above, if you move a directory rather than copy it, the files 
>> in it do not have their modification time (st_mtime) or their attribute 
>> change time (st_ctime) changed. As a consequence, those files will 
>> probably not be backed up by an Incremental or Differential backup which 
>> depend solely on these time stamps. If you move a directory, and wish it 
>> to be properly backed up, it is generally preferable to copy it, then 
>> delete the original. Alternatively, you can move the directory, then use 
>> the *touch* program to update the timestamps.”
>>
>>  
>>
>> Why?  Shouldn’t bacula treat these as a newly created directory with new 
>> files in it, and back them up?    This is a big burden requiring people 
>> to remember whether they should use cp or mv to move files.  Besides 
>> this, and the disk space issue, mv is a simple pointer redirection, and 
>> might be faster than a cp depending on how high in the tree you are 
>> working on.
> 
> These apply only to incremental and differential backups.  Those files 
> will be backed up on the next full backup.

I meant to add more.

bacula-fd is not stateful.  It does not know what files were included in 
previous backups.  That's why.

Read here: http://www.bacula.org/en/?page=projects

Look for "Item  1:  Accurate restoration of renamed/deleted files" (the 
2nd instance on that page).

Work is underway to improve that.

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