Backup - Unchanged files

Discussion in 'General' started by RicochetPeter, Mar 26, 2008.

  1. RicochetPeter

    RicochetPeter Member

    Hi all. While doing backups over time I have tried to analyse the space usage of these backups. What made me dig deeper is the fact that incrementals were constantly backing up rather old files... like
    /var/www/web40/log/2006/12/web.log

    looking at the stat output for this file:

    Code:
    Access: 2008-03-25 20:33:11.000000000 +0100
    Modify: 2007-01-01 00:30:04.000000000 +0100
    Change: 2008-03-26 00:30:06.000000000 +0100
    
    The last access timestamp is the actual backup process (tar), but the change timestamp is a riddle to me... must be this ispconfig cron job:

    Code:
    30 00 * * * /root/ispconfig/php/php /root/ispconfig/scripts/shell/logs.php &> /dev/null
    
    Does the log cron job do something to the "old" files, and every time it runs?

    If yes, can that behaviour be changed?
    If no, what else could it be?
     
  2. falko

    falko Super Moderator Howtoforge Staff

    Yes, it greps all accesses for that web site from the overall Apache access log (in /var/log/httpd) and adds them to the web.log.
     
  3. RicochetPeter

    RicochetPeter Member

    OK, so... I use tar with the --listed-incremental option. Does anyone know how to make tar backup only files that -in the wording of stat- habe been "modified", not "changed"?
     

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