On 28 Nov 2006 at 17:26, Michael Koppelman wrote:

> Sorry if this is redundant but I just wanted to add my voice to the  
> mix that it is too bad that bacula backs up files that have not  
> changed just because their mtime changed.

I have never seen it as a problem.

> In the end, it is probably  less expensive to checksum than move and
> handle redundant data. It  would at least be nice if one could choose
> the scheme in the  configuration so people who need to conserve
> computation time and  people who need to converse bandwidth could
> choose accordingly. 

Any restore would give you the wrong mtime.  Unless you started 
getting fancy within the Bacula Catalogs.

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