Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Windows incremental backup based on time stamps

2009-09-28 08:55:36
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Windows incremental backup based on time stamps
From: Graham Keeling <graham AT equiinet DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2009 13:58:02 +0100
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 09:18:34AM -0300, Júlio Maranhão wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 4:44 AM, Graham Keeling <graham AT equiinet DOT com> 
> wrote:
> > After investigating this for myself last week, I found that the code looks
> > at the access and modification times of files in both the 'accurate' and
> > non-'accurate' cases.
> > So, for example, if you change a file and then set those times back to match
> > what they were for the last backup, it won't get backed up next time - even
> > though it is now different.
> 
> I cannot understand your analysis. For instance, in what case a file
> will be changed and the time will go back? Anyway, using access time
> does not make sense. Probably, in Unix agent, change time and modify
> time is used. Not access time. If access time is being used, something
> is wrong.

Yes, you are right, it uses mtime and ctime.


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