Hello,

I've read several threads on this forum regarding incremental backups on the Linux agent. They all claim that if you use the same selection list, you should be able to specify:

Full - Back up files - Using modified time

to get a full backup and:

Incremental - Back up changed files since last full or incremental - Using modified time

to get an incremental backup.

However, this does not work for me. It always does a full backup. Now if I pick 'Working set - Back up files - Changed today' it basically works.

This document (http://seer.entsupport.symantec.com/docs/192119.htm) says to do what I just said above. But it also says that v 10.x should do the right thing for incrementals.

So I'm basically curious why incrementals do not work as advertised. One thing I do notice is that after a backup run, the ctime of all files is updated. Is it possible that the linux agent is using the ctime rather than the mtime when doing incrementals? Could I be using an old version of the agent? Here is the version of my linux agent:

strings agent.be | grep -i version
Backup Exec -- Unix Agent, Version 5.01

Any pointers are appreciated.

Thanks,
mikeS