Re: Backing up an external (USB) mounted media on Windows: Incrementals faked?!

Mandi! Josh Fisher via Bacula-users
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> I don't think unmount/remount would change the modification time. 
> However, it might change the mountpoint. Windows uses a multiple-root 
> filesystem. Each drive letter is actually a root path. A remount or 
> reboot could very well result in a USB drive previously mounted as E: to 
> be remounted as D:. When that happens, Bacula will see all of the files 
> as being at a different path than the previous backup, so an incremental 
> will be forced to backup the whole drive. Of course it will. If you 
> unmount/remount a filesystem on Linux to a different path, Bacula will 
> do the same thing.

Sure, but i don't backup '*:*', but a specific drive letter; so if drive
letter change, i will do no backup at all...


> If that is the issue, then it is also possible to mount the USB drive to 
> an empty folder on a NTFS filesystem, rather than a drive letter. This 
> can be done in Computer Management/Disk Management using Select Action > 
> All Tasks > Change Drive Letter and Paths. The USB drive partition does 
> not have to be NTFS, but the folder it is being mounted to does.

Thanks for the hint.

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