On Thu, Dec 24, 2015 at 5:24 AM, Philip Parsons (Velindre - Medical
Physics) <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> It seems to me that for an rsyncd backup the incremental backups use the
> file attributes to check which files need to be backed up, but for the full
> backup this is turned off and block checksums are used to check the file
> differences. However, I can’t see what the differences are between
> incremental and full for smb backups. Can anyone help me?
>
The smb and tar xfer methods send everything for fulls and use the
file timestamps to send files newer than the backing full for
incrementals. That has the down side of not tracking deletions and
possibly missing files/directories that are renamed or created in a
way that preserves old timestamps (like unpacking zip files, etc.).
--
Les Mikesell
[email protected]
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