Hi Dan, a hard link looks like the original file. So it always should have the same date. Below you will see that the hard link (second line) has the same date at the "original" file. I created the hard link today but it also has the date from november the 23th.
Ingo [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l file.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 2 root root 314099 23. Nov 15:58 file.JPG [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# ls -l backup/file.JPG -rw-rw-r-- 2 mother mother 314099 23. Nov 15:58 backup/file.JPG Dan Langille schrieb: > Ingo Jochim wrote: >> I create hard links for the files I want to backup so that while I do >> the backup the files can get deleted by someone else. >> >> The problem is that on an incremental backup I get a backup of all >> the files again like I got on a full backup. >> I create all the hard links right before the backup. A hard link >> points to the same file with the same date and so. >> Why does bacula backup all the files again? > > Because the dates on the hard links are newer than the previous backup. > > -- Ingo Jochim QuerySoft GmbH Blasewitzer Str. 41 01307 Dresden Tel.: 0351/ 450 4205 Fax: 0351/ 450 4200 Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web: www.QuerySoft.de Geschäftsführer: Michael Jochim Amtsgericht Dresden, HRB 24167 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bacula-users mailing list Bacula-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bacula-users
