Maurice Elliott
December 12th 03, 07:31 PM
Today, I copied 110 MB of stuff to a CD and the Windows CD
writer program appears to have turned on the archive bits
of all the files it took from the hard drive. that would
be rather nasty if I didn't know that the files were all
unchanged for weeks (so I could simply turn off the
archive bits). I'm going to have to play with this some
more to find out what happens, and if I can prevent the
turning-on of the archive bits when I copy files to a CD.
Thanks for reading this :~)
Maurice Elliott.
Cleaned out
>-----Original Message-----
>Running Win XP Pro, I do a daily incremental backup onto
>CDs using the MSBackup program that comes with Win XP. I
>run full backups on the first Sunday of every month.
>
>Today, only three days after the last full backup, my
>daily incremental backup suddenly grew to 123 MB (it was
>2.5 MB yesterday).
>
>All the usual files are backed up, but there's an
>additional directory that accounts for the increase. The
>directory name is c:\_SharedHardlinkData_ and the file
>names in this directory all consist of three hexadecimal
>strings separated by periods. The first substring in each
>case is 'a2da57'. In many, but not all, cases the second
>substring is '10000'. The third substring is unique by
>file. The file sizes vary widely from 1k to 14M or so.
The
>change dates on these files go all the way back to 1996!!
>(Four files were changed today).
>
>I cannot see this directory from Windows Explorer or the
>DOS command line, just in the backup catalog. I can find
>no mention of the directory name anywhere in the
>internet !!
>
>Can anyone explain what this directory contains. I
presume
>I can exclude it from my backups, but I'd rather know
what
>I'm playing with first.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
>/Maurice Elliott.
>.
>
writer program appears to have turned on the archive bits
of all the files it took from the hard drive. that would
be rather nasty if I didn't know that the files were all
unchanged for weeks (so I could simply turn off the
archive bits). I'm going to have to play with this some
more to find out what happens, and if I can prevent the
turning-on of the archive bits when I copy files to a CD.
Thanks for reading this :~)
Maurice Elliott.
Cleaned out
>-----Original Message-----
>Running Win XP Pro, I do a daily incremental backup onto
>CDs using the MSBackup program that comes with Win XP. I
>run full backups on the first Sunday of every month.
>
>Today, only three days after the last full backup, my
>daily incremental backup suddenly grew to 123 MB (it was
>2.5 MB yesterday).
>
>All the usual files are backed up, but there's an
>additional directory that accounts for the increase. The
>directory name is c:\_SharedHardlinkData_ and the file
>names in this directory all consist of three hexadecimal
>strings separated by periods. The first substring in each
>case is 'a2da57'. In many, but not all, cases the second
>substring is '10000'. The third substring is unique by
>file. The file sizes vary widely from 1k to 14M or so.
The
>change dates on these files go all the way back to 1996!!
>(Four files were changed today).
>
>I cannot see this directory from Windows Explorer or the
>DOS command line, just in the backup catalog. I can find
>no mention of the directory name anywhere in the
>internet !!
>
>Can anyone explain what this directory contains. I
presume
>I can exclude it from my backups, but I'd rather know
what
>I'm playing with first.
>
>Any help will be appreciated.
>
>/Maurice Elliott.
>.
>