Zitat von azurIt <azu...@pobox.sk>: > Hi, > > are there any plans to implement linux inotify selection of files to > backup? Thnx. > > azur
While it sounds helpful there are some problems to tackle: - Files changed before or while the FD is not running for example on machine startup - Performance penalty on busy volumes by FD sorting/recording the changes - Other limitations listed below (from manpage) Limitations and caveats Inotify monitoring of directories is not recursive: to monitor subdirectories under a directory, additional watches must be created. This can take a significant amount time for large directory trees. Note that the event queue can overflow. In this case, events are lost. Robust applications should handle the possibility of lost events gracefully. The inotify API identifies affected files by filename. However, by the time an application processes an inotify event, the filename may already have been deleted or renamed. If monitoring an entire directory subtree, and a new subdirectory is created in that tree, be aware that by the time you create a watch for the new subdirectory, new files may already have been created in the subdirectory. Therefore, you may want to scan the contents of the subdirectory immediately after adding the watch. Regards Andreas ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_sfd2d_oct _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
