On Dec  5, 2000, Eric Wadsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Amanda has now run 4 times on my network. The past three times it
> has included samba shares for various NT workstations. Why are the
> incrementals so huge on these?

One of the possible reasons: if the username with which you access the
SMB server doesn't have permission to change attributes of files, it
won't be able to remove the `archive' flag, that is used to decide
whether to include a file in an incremental backup or not.

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