On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 12:44:23AM +0100, Charles Stroom wrote: > Jon and Paul, many thanks for your suggestions. I started off looking > at the gnutar-lists directory and found many entries dated from before > my cleaning operation (that included as per FAQ "reset its databases so > as to start from scratch"). So I reset it again and emptied also the > gnutar-lists. I started with a reduced disklist (3 DLEs) and found > evidence that it had cured the problem. Reset again. However, after the > first full backup, the 2nd was wrong again. > > Considering the suggestion that something looks at my files, thereby > modifying [a|c|m]time and the only one I could think of was updatedb > (apart from the nsa of course), I did an immediate 3rd backup after > the 2nd, but this was also wrong with level 1 dumps equal in size to > level 0. Nevertheless, I have disabled the updatedb, and see to the > results tomorrow. But I did also do a check on the ctime of 1 of the > Pictures* DLE's and in fact ALL ctimes are "2014-02-03" the date when > these files were copied over from the previous installation. I suspect > the fault is somewhere else. >
Disabling updatedb is worth a try, but I doubt it is a culprit. It doesn't need to read the data blocks of any file except for directories. Jon -- Jon H. LaBadie [email protected] 11226 South Shore Rd. (703) 787-0688 (H) Reston, VA 20190 (609) 477-8330 (C)
