Steve H wrote:
in checking the Index files, I noticed that the actual files had a different date on them (august 5th) while all the directories have august 11th. This is bothering me because that shouldn't happen. Would Amanda backup only the directories if the tape becomes full?
Actually, I'm under the impression that tar really notes all the directories first in its tarball, and the files much later. Now, directories (not their contents) are regularly backed up at each level, I imagine because they seem to be changing; the files themselves are correctly saved if they have changed since the last lower level.
Which means that you can get in your index files, a backup of the files from august 5th because they changed on that day, and a backup of the directories from august 11th without the files, because the files stayed identical.
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