samba - Oct 2006 - Arc Serve Backup

Recently we have started using Arc serve backup. The Arc server and the tape
library are connected to a Windows 2000 server machine and the data files
are stored on many Samba file servers.  I have Linux Client Agents installed
on all Linux Machine. 

Now the problem is that when Arc Serve backup the file it always backup the
full files irrespective of setting for a differential backup. I think the
Arc serve is not able to set Archive bit on the file system. But it does for
windows. Has any one in the list experienced this type of problem? 

Any advice or guidance would be really appreciated.

 

Thanks

 

Rajeev R. Veedu

I'm not entirely sure that this is the place to be asking this question, 
but I can probably help you out as we have a very similar setup. 
Essentially, you're right, Linux doesn't have an archive bit to set like
windows does. The easy way to get around this is just to set the job 
filter to only backup files modified in the last x number of days. This 
works like a charm for us.

Aaron Maley

Rajeev R Veedu wrote:
> Recently we have started using Arc serve backup. The Arc server and the
tape
> library are connected to a Windows 2000 server machine and the data files
> are stored on many Samba file servers.  I have Linux Client Agents
installed
> on all Linux Machine. 
>
> Now the problem is that when Arc Serve backup the file it always backup the
> full files irrespective of setting for a differential backup. I think the
> Arc serve is not able to set Archive bit on the file system. But it does
for
> windows. Has any one in the list experienced this type of problem? 
>
> Any advice or guidance would be really appreciated.
>
>  
>
> Thanks
>
>  
>
> Rajeev R. Veedu
>
>  
>
>