-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Wouldn't these databases CHANGE anyway -- do the files stay exactly the same if nothing is written to them? How about if they are read, etc. I personally don't know, but my feeling is 99% of the time, the files would change at least subtly.
Michael Koppelman wrote: > For us it's a problem because we are dumping out some very large > databases, some of which change daily but many which do not. We'd > like to dump the files out every night and just have bacula back up > the changed files. The unchanged files were recreated but are still > identical to previous versions. We wouldn't care if they were > restored with the wrong mtime. In fact, I've never run into a > situation where I was concerned about the mtime of the restored files. > > M. > > On Nov 28, 2006, at 8:12 PM, Dan Langille wrote: > >> On 28 Nov 2006 at 17:26, Michael Koppelman wrote: >> >>> Sorry if this is redundant but I just wanted to add my voice to the >>> mix that it is too bad that bacula backs up files that have not >>> changed just because their mtime changed. >> I have never seen it as a problem. >> >>> In the end, it is probably less expensive to checksum than move and >>> handle redundant data. It would at least be nice if one could choose >>> the scheme in the configuration so people who need to conserve >>> computation time and people who need to converse bandwidth could >>> choose accordingly. >> Any restore would give you the wrong mtime. Unless you started >> getting fancy within the Bacula Catalogs. >> >> -- >> Dan Langille : Software Developer looking for work >> my resume: http://www.freebsddiary.org/dan_langille.php >> PGCon - The PostgreSQL Conference - http://www.pgcon.org/ >> >> > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT > Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your > opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash > http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users - -- ---- _ _ _ _ ___ _ _ _ |Y#| | | |\/| | \ |\ | | |Ryan Novosielski - Systems Programmer III |$&| |__| | | |__/ | \| _| |[EMAIL PROTECTED] - 973/972.0922 (2-0922) \__/ Univ. of Med. and Dent.|IST/AST - NJMS Medical Science Bldg - C630 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFbxBGmb+gadEcsb4RAiPjAJ9zv/WPhOi9LPe8wy8wvINW17mC4ACcDIhy nIusfZ64Q5CzAi5Qlg1TINI= =cM6Q -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys - and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
