Hi,

>>   
> Actually bacula uses ctime by default, not mtime.
> 

Actually under the 'Level = Incremental' section of the page you linked 
it states:

"The File daemon (Client) decides which files to backup for an 
Incremental backup by comparing start time of the prior Job (Full, 
Differential, or Incremental) against the time each file was last 
"modified" (st_mtime) and the time its attributes were last 
"changed"(st_ctime). If the file was modified or its attributes changed 
on or after this start time, it will then be backed up."

So we were both right almost :)

> One possibility which occurs to me is that there may be some kind of 
> time synchronization problem between the director and the client.  I 
> suspect the problem as described could be a result of the client's clock 
> being too far ahead of the director's.  I would suggest verifying the 
> client and director's clocks more or less agree.  This may be a 
> non-obvious issue if the client and director are in different time zones 
> -- or, more to the point, if one of them is in the wrong timezone.
> 

I've seen Bacula compensate for different clock times on servers a few 
seconds/minutes apart - it logs a line at the top of the job saying it's 
doing so.

However, I've never tried it when the clocks are hours/timezones apart 
so cant say if it'd compensate then.

Cheers,

-- 
Troy Daniels                      iTouch Australia, a Buongiorno company
Senior Systems Administrator      Ph  +618 6461 4102
troy.daniels AT itouch.com DOT au        Fax +618 6461 4199
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