On 7/7/2010 9:22 AM, Jim Kyle wrote: > On Wednesday, July 7, 2010, at 8:45:21 AM, Bowie Bailey wrote: > >> If the date on the file is earlier than the previous full, >> the file will not be backed up. This is true even if the file did not >> exist previously. The most common case for this to happen is when you >> copy files from one computer to another. The next full backup will get >> everything. > > Thanks for the information. This eases my mind about that part of the > problem, but I still need to find a way to handle the critical system > directories. Apparently the current version of Samba, unlike some of the > earlier ones, refuses to open system areas -- or is this a case of Windows > refusing external access to them, even by members of the Administrators > group? If it's the latter, perhaps I could use Windows' native backup > capability to copy the content to a non-system area that Samba could > access, although that seems like a dreadful kludge and waste of virtual > disk space...
Windows defaults to locking open files. And samba only gives you a "client's eye" view anyway, so it won't preserve ACLs or other special attributes that you might need to to a full system restore. You should either plan to do a new system install followed by dropping your own data back from backuppc, or do periodic system image copies with something like ghost or clonezilla to give you a starting point, or use a more elaborate scheme like the 'open file' link here: http://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/backuppc/index.php?title=Tips_and_Tricks -- Les Mikesell [email protected] ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ This SF.net email is sponsored by Sprint What will you do first with EVO, the first 4G phone? Visit sprint.com/first -- http://p.sf.net/sfu/sprint-com-first _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
