tfrogh Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 This has been a problem ever since I started using Retrospect 8 (now using 8.2 under Mac OS 10.6.7 Server and I have a Retrospect Server license). Whenever I propagate permissions on my server share points to correct incorrect permissions on folders my users have made, Retrospect will assume every file and folder is new/changed and trigger a full back-up. That means 4.5TB of data to be backed up which takes days. Back in Retrospect 6 there was a Preference setting telling Retrospect to ignore ACL/POSIX changes and only back-up based on file modification date. I cannot find any such preference to change in Retrospect 8. I did notice in the Scripts menu under Options Tab in Source...Macintosh there is a check box for "use Attribute Modification date when matching" but that does not solve this. That appears to relate to Mac Clients and I no longer back up my Mac Clients with Retrospect. This problem occurs locally on attached eSATA drives. Similarly, Is it possible for Retrospect to be made to understand that a change to Day Light Savings or back to Standard time does not mean every file on the server has changed? Anyone have any suggestions. Tom Retrospect User...12 years and counting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted May 10, 2011 Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 Go to the script options and uncheck the option to match against the attribute modification date. That should help. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tfrogh Posted May 10, 2011 Author Report Share Posted May 10, 2011 Go to the script options and uncheck the option to match against the attribute modification date. That should help. It was unchecked to begin with. I have tried both with it checked and unchecked, it still wants to back-up all 4.5TB as new/changed either way. :-( Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Steve Maser Posted May 11, 2011 Report Share Posted May 11, 2011 (edited) I think mayoff was answering the last question (about the DST backup) -- that change doesn't affect POSIX/ACL changes. Edited May 11, 2011 by Steve Maser Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
44049a32-83e8-4f07-80b1-09a589fb7ab4 Posted December 12, 2011 Report Share Posted December 12, 2011 Anybody got an answer to this yet? I am really struggling with same issue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
f30e6e60-a263-4d69-8f60-c92703669308 Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 Back in Retrospect 6 there was a Preference setting telling Retrospect to ignore ACL/POSIX changes But remember why that options was there; to work around an Apple bug. It wasn't intended as a feature. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggirao Posted May 6, 2013 Report Share Posted May 6, 2013 This still happens in Retro 9. Anyone knows how to solve this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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