On Wednesday 07 September 2005 15:39, Alan Brown wrote: > For some reason Bacula is backing up 27Gb/night on one disk when only a > few hundred Mb/night is actually changing. > > The _only_ thing that I can see which might be affecting things is a > ctime/mtime update on the parent directory, but only 100-200 files (out of > several thousand) are actually changing, however it looks like the entire > dircetory is being backed up. > > Kern, is this normal behaviour? I'm trying to find out what the standard > policy is before trying to dig too much into why there's so much being > backed up needlessly....
Look at the time and date stamps on the files using "stat <filename>". Typically this kind of problem is due to some anti-virus program or something similar, which modifies the time stamps. > > AB > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO > September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices > Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA > Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf > _______________________________________________ > Bacula-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users ------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is Sponsored by the Better Software Conference & EXPO September 19-22, 2005 * San Francisco, CA * Development Lifecycle Practices Agile & Plan-Driven Development * Managing Projects & Teams * Testing & QA Security * Process Improvement & Measurement * http://www.sqe.com/bsce5sf _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
