Date: Feb 2009
Product & Version: NVBU 8.X
OS Version: Windows
Module & Version: Filesystem plugin 7.1 onwards
Application version:
Symptoms:
The default behaviour when performing a filesystem backup is that the file system plugin stat/read updates the access timestamps of files with the current sysdate/time.
if the user is using the access timestamp as the criteria to archive files (as with hierarchical storage management) then no files ever get archived as they all have just been accessed by netvault.
*Note*
implementing the following will *reduce* the file system backup performance as it introduces an additional overhead for each file
This will *not* work with network share (NSB) backups.
If backing up a network share, the access times will remain changed to current sysdate/time on all parent directories.
This is implemented on as a plugin configuration change for each Netvault client that requires the timestamps to be reset.
Once implemented each job that is executed on the client will perform the timestamp reset.
On the desired client edit the file ~netvault/config/nvfs.cfg add the following lines:
[Misc:ResetAccessTimes]
Value=TRUE
If you add those two lines below an existing section, for each file backed up the plugin should reset the access time back to the original value before it had to read the file.
