Are you sure unix even supports the archive bit?

Andy Zbikowski (Zibby) wrote:

>>am going to try using that.  I am not sure how the archive bit works,
>>but thought I'd start the incremental process by using the -N option
>>with a logfile.
>>
>
>Archive bit is either on or off. It is set off by your backup software,
>and on by your os when a file is written to.
>
>I'm fairly certin that smbfs can't read this bit, but smbclient can.
>
>I thought of another reason why you're backups might fail. When you login
>to the server via smbfs or smbclient, the user you log in as needs to have
>full read/write/modify permissions to the drive so that it can reset the
>archive bit.
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