[Bacula-users] Incremental and Differential dont work like expected

[<mw...@il...>]

Hi

i tried the 2 recent Versions (1.29 and 1.30 from CVS).
Installed on Debian Linux 3.0 aka Woody.
looks quite good, nice console, rich featured and much more ..
i would like to take it in production (administraion of 
the existing amanda backup just kills my nervs)

but one big problem: 

from Differential and/or Incremental backup i expect that
they either backup my files changed since last Full/Incr. Backup 
or the files which are new since then.

but fact is, just files which have creation date newer
then last Full/Incr. Backup where backuped.

Example:

i have a directory (call it /dir) , its still full backuped
and the next daily runs just have to be incremental

1) i create a new file in /dir -> it will be backuped by incremental run
   -> thats what i want
2) i copy a file from /another_place to /dir  (its creation date is 
   sometime in 2000) -> it will NOT be backuped by incremental run
   -> thats not what i expected 

the same behaviour is on windows (win98se) and linux (Debian 3.0)
clients. i tried both versions (1.29 and 1.30) on all four pc's

another Example:

i created a job containing one dir (/home) and let bacula run a
full backup. next day i modified the job an added the dirs /usr and /var.
the next incremental run didnt backup any file in /usr or /var
(since alle the file dates in there are older than the last full backup run)
-> this should not be, or? i dont want to run a full backup if i add
   directories

does anyone else have this problem? please help

matthias wamser

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