Re: Incremental and permission changes

Andrea Venturoli <[email protected]> Thu, 5 Feb 2026 09:16:47 +0100
Newsgroups gmane.comp.bacula.user
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 2/2/26 10:13, Andrea Venturoli wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> In an installation I manage, there's a NAS with lot of data that is 
> backed up with the usual Full/Diff/Inc schedule.
> On this NAS it's quite frequent to have sweeping permission changes; 
> alas these almost translate an Incremental backup into a Full one.
> 
> I don't care about permissions: I can set them up automatically after a 
> restore, so I'd like to avoid this.
> 
> What's the proper way to tell Bacula NOT to backup a file if only its 
> permission changed?
> Or, again, don't backup permissions at all, if the above is not feasible?
> 
> I also thought about using "accurate: mco1", which should backup the 
> permissions, but not the files themself. This could do...
> Before putting it into production, though, are there any caveat?
> 
> Any other idea?

No one?

  bye & Thanks
	av.