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Hello, I'm facing the following issue: We have a common storage space available through 2 linux servers running samba.linux: Red Hat Enterprise Linux AS release 4 (Nahant Update 5) samba: samba-3.0.10-1.4E.12.2 My customer has an exetrnal system accessing the storage through samba. It creates, modify and deletes a lot of files. All access are done through only one linux server (the second is a backup)Sometimes (rarely cases based on the numbers of files managed by this connection), they creates a file that they cannot deleted (even...

...the ways to back up files in my Linux home box. The important part of such thinking is how to set exclusion paths wisely. I finally found out that setting ext2/ext3 nodump attribute using chattr for files, but mainly directories, suits me best. Setting the match (regexp) lists for the backup script exetrnally seems sub-optimal to me, since my dump/nodump data arrangement is not stable in time. I started using Schily's star because of its multiple advantages over the GNU tar, true incremental dumps and honoring the nodump ext2/ext3 flag among others. But then I noticed what I call an unfortunate...