On Sun, 2013-09-08 at 09:32 -0600, compdoc wrote:
> But since you mention the commands "ls -lt" and "ls -lc", which are not > windows or dos commands, I'm assuming that your NTFS volumes are attached to > a nix OS? That may have more to do with the problem than being NTFS > volumes. Well, yes, I did say: > I expect this isn't an issue with Bacula specifically, but rather an > artifact of how Linux deals with M$ file systems. I am just wondering what exactly the issue is, and whether or not there is a workaround. This is a home setup. At first, I thought using something like Bacula for my house might be overkill, but it turns out that I have three Linux laptops (work, personal, and wife's) two desktops (mine and wife's) plus two other desktops that act as servers. One of the servers has a Windows 7 VM that is up all the time. All three laptops also have a dual boot Windows 7 system, and two of the laptops also have Windows 7 virtual machines. So that's a total of (I have to count them :-) 7 Linux OS's and 8 Windows OS's to back up. So I used a Raspberry Pi with a 4TB "green" drive (that shuts itself down when idle) as a storage server (oops, make that 8 Linux OS's to back up). Except for the one Windows VM that is up all the time (on which I did install bacula-fd), all the other Windows systems only get used occasionally, as needed, so I would really rather back them up via the Linux OS that gets used all the time. So the dual-boot systems have their file systems mounted under Linux, and I mount the virtual machine file systems also (one has to use an offset to mount the partitions within the virtual disk image). Their files are included in the backups of Linux OS, and can be restored that way. This works well except for the fact that some of the incrementals turn into full backups of the NTFS file systems, and I would like to find out why that happens. I suppose I could work around the problem by installing bacula-fd on 7 more Windows clients, but that's a lot more hassle than just mounting the NTFS file systems under Linux and backing the files up that way. Hopefully this explains what I'm trying to do and why. --Greg ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn the latest--Visual Studio 2012, SharePoint 2013, SQL 2012, more! Discover the easy way to master current and previous Microsoft technologies and advance your career. Get an incredible 1,500+ hours of step-by-step tutorial videos with LearnDevNow. Subscribe today and save! http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=58041391&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
