Re: [Bacula-users] Strange situation with backups

[Phil S. <al...@me...>]

On 11/30/10 07:48, Luis Marcelo Achite wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a strange situation happening with my Bacula installation. I did 
> a FULL backup in Nov/25 from my server and then every day I make an 
> incremental backup.
> 
> Yesterday, I installed a software on my server and for my surprise the 
> directory where I installed the software was copied but not all files. 
> Just the files with current date. The files with date older than the 
> FULL backup date, were not backuped.
> 
> Someone know why this is happening?

The most obvious speculation is that the software installed files
timestamped with their original creation date, not the installation
date.  This makes life difficult for any backup software that relies on
file modification dates to detect when a file has been changed.

The next Full backup will pick it up.  If you want them backed up before
then, you need to change the modification date on all the files to
"now".  On any Unix-like system, 'touch' can do this for you.  I'm not
sure how you'd accomplish it on Windows.


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