On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Davina Treiber wrote:

> Subject: Re: [Networker] linux client and linux ext3 file system type
>
> francis.berges wrote:
>
> > I have a w2k nbetworker server ( 6.0.1 ) with various clients
> > ( solaris, aix, w2k, Nt4 ).
> > Now i have a new client of linux type ( suse SLES 8 ). I
> > install 6.1.3 software client on these clients and i found
> > that incremental backups are very big ( 5Go Versus 20Go for a
> > full backup ). Or this machine is used as a repository for rpm
> > files.
> > When i run find / -ctime ( or mtime ) on these file-systems no
> > file seems to have been created in the last day.
> > As the file system type is ext3 , i wonder if this is a
> > special feature for this filesystem type.
>
> I'm fairly sure that ext3 filesystem is not supported at 6.1.3. Check
> the compatibility guide to be really sure. Perhaps it's supported at
> 7.0? I build my Linux systems with ext2 filesystems.
>

This may be true, but I have been backing up a linux (RH 7.2, 2.4.18-17.7.x)
with ext3 filesystems using both NW 6.1.3 and 7.0 without any problems.

You might try limiting your investigations to a smaller set of files in a test
saveset to figure out why it might be trying to back them up.

Shelley

> You've also broken the rule of thumb of having the client version equal
> to or lower than the server version. There are exceptions to the rule,
> but you should only break the rule for a good reason. I suggest you
> upgrade your server to 6.1.3.
>

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