[Box Backup] chris-merge - 2GB+ - Get OK - Compare fails?

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Kelly,

On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Kelly Black wrote:

>> The errors were all the same like this: Local file 
>> '/Volumes/raidD/blah.ppt' has different contents to store file 
>> '/clients_raidD/blah.ppt'
>>
>> So, my backup seems to be fine (realising its a quick compare)?
>
> I had some of the same problems with MS Office files.  It seems that the 
> timestamps sometimes don't get modified even thought the file was 
> changed via it being updated slightly.  In my case the only difference 
> was in the binary showing who printed the file last with no other edits.

Yes, I've heard about this MS Office naughtiness before. If the file is 
stored on a Unix server then we can detect such changes by comparing the 
ctime, which no application can forge. But when backing up a Windows 
server, the only options appear to be checking the file size and/or 
checksums of each file which is apparently unmodified (i.e. almost all of 
them).

Cheers, Chris.
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