Reply has been rearranged to retain chronological order. On Jan 16, 2008, at 9:22 AM, Ingo Jochim wrote:
> 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. >> >> >> 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 > You create these hard links just before you run each backup. Is that correct? -- Dan Langille -- http://www.langille.org/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
