John Drescher wrote: > There is a long thread in the users list that a user is getting nearly > full backups for his incrementals with bacula-2.4.X and it was > discovered that the reason was that the ctime on files was changing > between backups. He believes that bacula is doing this but I am not so > sure.
Is he running virus scanning software? From http://www.bacula.org/en/dev-manual/Configuring_Director.html : The File daemon (Client) decides which files to backup for an Incremental backup by comparing start time of the prior Job (Full, Differential, or Incremental) against the time each file was last "modified" (st_mtime) and the time its attributes were last "changed"(st_ctime). If the file was modified or its attributes changed on or after this start time, it will then be backed up. Some virus scanning software may change st_ctime while doing the scan. For example, if the virus scanning program attempts to reset the access time (st_atime), which Bacula does not use, it will cause st_ctime to change and hence Bacula will backup the file during an Incremental or Differential backup. In the case of Sophos virus scanning, you can prevent it from resetting the access time (st_atime) and hence changing st_ctime by using the --no-reset-atime option. For other software, please see their manual. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-devel mailing list Bacula-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-devel
