Re: [Networker] mtime directive question?
2009-06-18 20:04:59
Hi George,
On 19/06/2009, at 09:50 , George Sinclair wrote:
Hi,
Kind of a stupid question here (sigh ...) but have to ask.
I have a client side directive (/data/dir1/.nsr) with the following:
+mtimeasm: .?* *
We created this because there were problems wherein the change of
file status time (not modtime) was getting affected on a ton of
files every night, and this was causing huge incrementals. By
instituting this directive, the problems went away, and we were
subsequently only backing up files whose mod time changed as opposed
to the default which goes by ctime (that's what I call it).
OK, so what happens if we run a level full on /data? Will a level
full still capture all the files regardless of their ctimes or
mtimes, or would this directive force the full to only capture files
whose modtimes had changed?
I want to say that the full will get everything regardless except
for anything that is being skipped (e.g. null', 'skip') by some
other directive.
A full backup should do just that, regardless of whether you're using
the mtimeasm directive. (Verified: Just configured a client with a
directory with mtimeasm and immediately started a full backup of the
client ... the entire directory was saved.)
Cheers,
Preston.
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