Hi Paul hit the nail on the head.
It seem the administrator of that machine was running a find over the directories which updated the ctime of all the files. Thanks Paul. Anthony ------------- Begin Forwarded Message ------------- Anthony Worrall wrote: > We have a filesytem which contians files that are basically static. However > when they are backed up the incrementals are almost as big as the full backups. ... > This happens with dump and gntar backups. If I do a find on the filesystem it > claims that no files have been modified in the last 90 days. > > advisor1:/tmp/amanda # find /advisor/video/* -type f -mtime -90 -ls Check also the ctime (i-node change time): find /advisor/video/* -type f -ctime -90 -- Paul Bijnens, Xplanation Tel +32 16 397.511 Technologielaan 21 bus 2, B-3001 Leuven, BELGIUM Fax +32 16 397.512 http://www.xplanation.com/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *********************************************************************** * I think I've got the hang of it now: exit, ^D, ^C, ^\, ^Z, ^Q, F6, * * quit, ZZ, :q, :q!, M-Z, ^X^C, logoff, logout, close, bye, /bye, * * stop, end, F3, ~., ^]c, +++ ATH, disconnect, halt, abort, hangup, * * PF4, F20, ^X^X, :D::D, KJOB, F14-f-e, F8-e, kill -1 $$, shutdown, * * kill -9 1, Alt-F4, Ctrl-Alt-Del, AltGr-NumLock, Stop-A, ... * * ... "Are you sure?" ... YES ... Phew ... I'm out * *********************************************************************** ------------- End Forwarded Message ------------- Anthony Worrall School IT Networking Coordinator School of Systems Engineering The University of Reading, Whiteknights, PO Box 225 Reading, Berkshire, UK RG6 6AY Tel: +44 (0)118 931 8610 Fax: +44 (0)118 975 1822 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
