On Thu, 3 Mar 2011, Bob Hetzel wrote:

> Now suppose you do a full backup on March 1.  On March 10, a user then
> decides some old files that weren't being backed up before should be backed
> up.  The files are all timestamped prior to March 1.  The end result is
> that they won't get backed up until the next full backup.  If you do full
> backups frequently you might not care much about it but you should be aware
> of it.

If you have accurate backups enabled then this won't happen.

The other common scenario of "user moves a directory tree around on the
disk" will also be handled correctly.

In both cases with accurate backups, what's on the disk is compared with
what's in the database, instead of just backing up files newer than the
last incremental.





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