RE: [Bobs-devel] Backup files from a NT4 server...

[Arnaud C. <arn...@ar...>]

Hi,
I've been using BOBS for some time now and there is something strange i've
been noticing...
I run bobs on a linux RH9 srv with large disks which backups several servers
such as NT4 SRV servers, and Linux servers running samba. I use the smb way
for all the backups... (why not NFS would you say?... i didn't have time to
set this up, and moreover the smb way works just fine...). But speaking of
the NT4 servers, i've noticed lots of backups done everyday, lots of things
in the incremental folder... After a little research, i saw that the backup
server saved lots of files on the NT4 server whereas neither the file's
content change, nor the modification time. BUT, it seems that my backup
server saves files which have been lately accessed, and on which the "last
accessed time" changed. For a reminder, on a NTFS time you have 3 times:
-creation time
-modification time
-last access time

you can never see the "last access time" because windows updates this one
each time you access the file... and in my backups, the files in current and
in incremental are strictly the same (same name, same creation/modif
time)... Am I the only one with this issue? Is there a way to prevent this
to happen (except kicking NT4 away for linux based servers ;) )

Bye
Arnaud.