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BobF's avatar
BobF
Level 3
16 years ago

NDMP Backup not clearing archive bit

Hi all,   I am doing full backups of multiple cifs via NDMP. The backup works perfectly fine and if i go into the restore tab all the files are there. I have double checked the policy and it has a ...
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  • Alexander_Harri's avatar
    Alexander_Harri
    16 years ago

    Hello,

     

    The archive bit is a Windows specific file attribute and is not used by the NetApp filer. NDMP backups are performed using ndmpd process on the NetApp filer which uses its own method of determining which files to backup.

     

    If you want to clear the archive bits on backup, you will need to mount the folders as network drives on a Windows client and back them up using a Windows policy.

     

    Alexander Harris 

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sdo
Moderator
16 years ago

...but that might update the modified time stamp of the file, and cause NDMP backups to assume the file has changed and thus every file gets backed up by every incremental/differential until the next full.

 

I'd test on one small folder first.

 

Keen to know the outcome, please post back.