Hello,

Le Tuesday 21 April 2009 09:01:38 James Harper, vous avez écrit :
> NTFS appears to have a feature called the 'USN Change Journal' (eg
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Change_Journal and
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa363798(VS.85).aspx ) that
> keeps track of modifications to the filesystem. I think some other
> backup products use it for fast incremental and differential backups,
> especially in cases where there are lots of files to check for changes.

It sounds to be a very nice feature, this is also possible with solaris and 
linux with some tweaks (not directly included).

We need to take a look deeply, gotcha like that affraids me a bit :)
"The NTFS file system may delete old records in order to conserve space."

> Has anyone considered it's use under Bacula before? It appears that it
> could also speed up the 'accurate' operation as it keeps records like
> 'file was deleted', 'file was renamed', etc.

I would say that this is a different option, accurate code permits to do 
differential and incremental starting from any point in time (even basefile 
level), but for fast accurate incremental with many files or cdp (continious 
data protection) it sounds *very* good.

A simple proof of concept tool should be quite easy to write/find, and your 
skills match perfectly :-)

Bye

> Thanks
>
> James
>

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