Re: incremental backups not working

Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:01:55 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.sysutils.backup.hdup.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
[On 26 Jul, @10:07, Bart wrote in "[hdup-user] incremental backup ..."]
> Hi,
> 
> I installed hdup on clarkconnect home edition 2.2 to backup the all 
> the shared files on this machine. I put 1.6 Gb of files in the shared 
> directory and made a monthly backup, followed by a weekly and 
> then a daily.
> Then I added a cron job, with the daily-backups starting a 05:00. 
> But every day the full /share directory is being backed-up. 
> (example of the last 2 days)
> 
> > Jul 25 05:37:03 server hdup[30228]: SUCCESS, threemileisland, 1.6G,
> > 0:37:03
> > Jul 26 05:37:02 server hdup[30220]: SUCCESS, threemileisland,
> > 1.6G, 0:37:01
> 
> I do not use the "include ="
> 
> Any ideas?

not directly... are you sure those files are not touched by other
processes? What kind of filesystem are you using?

grtz Miek