RE: Incremental Backup Question

Hi Miek, after much hunting - I have found the problem.. this has been
caused by my virus scanner - which must re-write the ctime after it has
carried out a scan. I have since disabled the scan over network files.

Thanks for the fast response.

Regards
faz

PS - just one other observation - when I use chunking - the cron output
states only the chunk size and not the file size written (as it used to
without chunking) - are you aware of this?

-----Original Message-----
From: Miek Gieben [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 12 September 2003 09:36
To: Farrukh Ahmad
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [hdup-user] 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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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is.

PS amazing: it very quiet on the hdup lists, and then within a week two
people
   decide it is time to mail :)