Les Mikesell wrote: > Evren Yurtesen wrote: > >> From BackupPC Info: >> ------------- >> For SMB and tar, BackupPC uses the modification time (mtime) to >> determine which files have changed since the last lower-level backup. >> That mean SMB and tar incrementals are not able to detect deleted >> files, renamed files or new files whose modification time is prior to >> the last lower-level backup. >> ------------- > > > When the documentation and the source differ, trust the source... Look > at what your config.pl is actually using for the tar options - and you > can change it if you want. You might also be able to take out the > --ignore-timestamp on the rsync full arguments if you want but since the > receiving side is built-in I'm not sure if it would work. >
Thank you, I realized about --ignore-timestamp a little bit too late. The problem was that I was wrong at first and thought checksum checking was a feature of backuppc. (and yes it also checks the checksum when a file is backed up.). Thanks Evren ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
