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. > >| Andrew S. Zbikowski | Home: 763.591.0977 | >| http://www.ringworld.org | Work: 763.428.9119 | >| http://www.itouthouse.com | PCS: 612.306.6055 | >| Sinclair: "No boom?" Garibaldi: "No boom." | >| Ivanova: "No boom today. Boom tomorrow. | >| Always a boom tomorrow." | > >_______________________________________________ >tclug-list mailing list >tclug-list at mn-linux.org >https://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > >