I'm running backuppc 3.2.1 on Linux Mint 11, backing up a machine (A) which
has SMB (as opposed to rsync/tar/...) as the only available backup
mechanism.
An initial full backup of A is fine, but a subsequent incremental backup
does not backup files which were added to A since the full backup.
It seems clear why, since the 'modtime's of these files are *prior* to the
time of the full backup: they retained their original creation/modification
times from the source machine (B) when they were copied to A after the full
backup of A. (I do see that the directory structure that would contain
these new files is created in the incremental backup set, since these
directories on A are newer than the full backup.)
backuppc documentation says: "For SMB and tar, BackupPC uses the
modification time (mtime) to determine which files have changed since the
last lower-level backup. That means 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*."
The question: is there any way to have backuppc incrementally backup such
files, perhaps based on the fact that they do not exist in the full backup
set?
Thanks for any assistance/advice!
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