Hello everyone At work I have a problem. Our backup software that runs on NT gives me trouble when I have to back up a samba share. Full backup works perfect, but the problem is that I want to do incremental backups too. The software on NT determins the files to be backed up by looking at the archive bit. I know that it can be emulated with map archive = yes, but this is _quite_ annoying for the people using the linux part (the samba server is used as filestorage for our linux stuff) as stuff suddently All this brings me to: Is there any way to map it on the fly by having a kind of database with the last time the archive bit was cleared, and then making the bit appear as set when the files last modified date is newer than the date of last clearing of the archive bit? This means that the archive bit is not stored anywhere, but it is calculated when it is needed. Speed might (surely) be an issue, but this does not concern me greatly as: A. Slow only for windows clients only :) B. Slow only for the backupprogram. Feel free to point me to any links, docs, etc. /Allan Outlook stinks.