On 05/08/2015 08:17 AM, Ronny Egner wrote: > Dear List, > > i am trying to move to Bareos while running another backup software in > parallel (for some time at least). > > As we are doing incremental backups i was wondering how bareos identifies > changed files. > Do it look at the size and modification date and compares it to the values in > the database? > > Thanks in advance > Ronny >
Yes, it's based on the modification timestamps. When the size of a file changes, normally also it modification time is changed. This is explained with some more details at http://doc.bareos.org/master/html/bareos-manual-main-reference.html#ItemsToNote Regards -- Stephan Dühr [email protected] Bareos GmbH & Co. KG Phone: +49 221-630693-90 http://www.bareos.com Sitz der Gesellschaft: Köln | Amtsgericht Köln: HRA 29646 Komplementär: Bareos Verwaltungs-GmbH Geschäftsführer: S. Dühr, M. Außendorf, J. Steffens, Philipp Storz, M. v. Wieringen -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "bareos-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
