Faxes and backups - an anomaly with attributes

[Alan Franklin]

With our (SBS2K) shared fax setup we have a simple archiving scheme
that drops the tif file in a directory. Whilst monitoring the backups, I'd
noticed that a lot of faxes (much more that arriving) was showing up
in the logs whilst doing the differential.

No big deal, a few Mb of data wasn't going to cause grief. However,
being curious, one day (today) I thought to have a close look at it.

Some faxes had the archive bit set and some not. Ringing the changes
and excluding the faxes that had arrived since the last full backup, what
I see is that any fax greater than 31Kb does not have it's archive bit
set. That is, for some reason, either the full backup is not clearing
the archive bit on faxes > 31 Kb or some other process is setting it.
The faxes go back to Nov 2001 (OK, so I *should* do some housekeeping).
So these are not faxes that anyone is touching except that backup processes.

Anyone else seeing this bizarre behaviour ? Or have the magic incantation
to cure it ? Obviously no big deal, just wierd. I'm going to clear a few
archive bit manually just to see if they magically get reset.

Regards,

Alan Franklin

 

[Raghavendra R [MSFT]]

You may want to try some file system related newsgroup. Fax service doesn't
play any role here per se

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