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[Raymond Smith]

On 2 February 2010 15:15, Raymond Smith <raymond at storybridge.org> wrote:
> Another possibility would be including some prefix that we can rely on
> to be unique to the machine -- IP address or MAC address maybe. The
> "is backup stuffed" check could then limit itself to looking for files
> with that prefix.

Sorry, I am bad at multi-tasking and sent this mid-edit.

What I meant to say here was that if we prefixed with a
unique-to-(virtual)machine artifact then there would be no problem
with different instances of excalibur overwriting each other. We might
then dispense with the backup is stuffed check.

>> So is it only the noisy emails.  There is a simple solution to them if
>> it continues - just don't report files appearing out of thin air as
>> evidence of someone else modifying the backups.  Check for file
>> deletions and modifications only.
>
> This would be a great improvement -- noisy system emails will end up
> being treated just like spam.

This might end up being an easier solution, I don't know.

Cheers,

Raymond