Re: incremental backups working

We had a similar problem.

I found a tape backup job that had --atime-preserve on the tar command line 
which seemed to preserve/adjust all the atimes on files after backup.

This had the affect of fooling hdup's tar command line causing it to backup the 
whole system on a daily basis.

Bart Brugmans wrote:
> Hi Miek,
> 
> thanks for your reply. The strange thing is, that after 2 days the 
> incremental backups started working, and everything looks fine. I 
> still have no clue what was "wrong" the first 2 days. I couldn't find 
> anything.
> 
> f.y.i.
> the /share is shared through samba it is on a ext3 filesystem
> backups are made on a external usb drive (also ext3) wich is 
> mounted before the backup is made and unmounted when the 
> backup is finished.
> The /share is not really active at the moment, as the machine is 
> being tested right now before we might migrate to it.
> 
> Bart