Dump uses both mtime and ctime.

There is an option to dump to ignore any ctime changes (often caused by virus scanning products).

Similarly, on the filer you can specify console> ndmpd ignore_ctime

and any dump started via NDMP will only check the mtime.

Hope this helps, Stephen Manley DAM and NDMP Phineas Fogg

On Mon, 4 Mar 2002, neil lehrer wrote:

hi,

what date does dump use for incrementals? my ndmp incrementals seem on the large side. the etc/dumpdates look like:

/vol/vol0/ 0 Sat Mar 2 15:01:26 2002 /vol/vol0/apps 0 Wed Mar 28 12:15:22 2001 /vol/vol0/users 0 Tue Apr 10 11:45:56 2001 /vol/vol0/etc 0 Fri Apr 27 12:44:39 2001 /vol/vol0/all_non_quota_files 0 Mon Apr 30 19:08:44 2001 /vol/vol0/users2 0 Fri May 4 16:03:03 2001 /vol/vol0/ 2 Thu May 3 16:45:15 2001 /vol/vol0/users/a 0 Fri Aug 17 14:38:30 2001 /vol/vol0/ 4 Sun Mar 3 19:01:17 2002

last full was mar2. last incr was mar3.

does dump look at the m-date? before i bug my ndmp vendor i want to do some checking myself.

i am ontap 6.1.1r2

thanks.

regards