On 17 oct. 2010, at 18:33, Sergey Poznyakoff wrote: > Jérome Foucher <[email protected]> ha escrit: > >> But let's say machine A is now dead. I move on to machine B, and >> extract the level 0 archive >> >> I then add a file in the Mail folder and try to create a level 1 >> archive using the same command line as above. > > Do you use the snapshot file from the machine A?
Yes. > If so, then it's > natural: snapshot files contain (among other info) device and inode > numbers for all directories in the archive. On machine B these numbers > are different, which triggers a full backup. Is the "--no-check-device" option supposed to avoid such a problem ? And why does it work (for me working means that it correctly identify the files that have been added/removed/modified) when I pass the absolute paths ? Jérome
