Re: Incremental Backup Question

[On 12 Sep, @00:50, Farrukh wrote in "[hdup-user] Incremental Backup ..."]
>    Hi Miek, hope you are well.

I'm fine, thank you,

>    I am using hdup 1.6.16 - and am carrying out incremental backups. I have a
>    problem in that the size of the incremental archive is v,large, - it is
>    not much smaller than monthly backup. I have checked the archive and it
>    contains files that have not been updated for months. Checking the inode
>    ctime - indicates a change at the beginning of a week but not daily - but
>    the archive size remains same...the affected files are part of a samba
>    share too. Could you let me know how hdup does its incremental decision -
>    and whether it could be changing inode time? I don't really know what is
>    chaning the ctime...


I think I saw this question before.... let me check the (mail) archives...
hmmm... I don't see anything.

The decision to check what should be backed up (when doing an inc.) is entirely
left to tar. (search for --listed-incremental)

You are not using include =  in your config file? What is the under lying
filesystem on the samba share?

    grtz  Miek

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