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Adrian Chapman wrote:Does QRecall still perform a periodic exhaustive file system scan in Lion and if so how frequently?
# perform a deep scan every 3 days
defaults write com.qrecall.client QRAuditFileSystemHistoryDays -float 2.9
Adrian Chapman wrote:Thanks James. What prompted my question was that in the advanced settings page of the Cookbook & FAQ forum it says "Leopard only" for this parameter and I just wondered if anything had changed with later releases of OS X.
Out of curiosity I tried changing QRAuditFileSystemHistoryDays to zero so it would perform an exhaustive scan on every capture but I didn't notice any change in the capture speed which seems a bit odd if QRecall has to examine every file.
Also how confident are you that a seven day interval is reasonable?
Can you tell me where in the archive the date is stored as I have had a look at the various files and I can't see anything obvious.
Adrian Chapman wrote:I have a feeling that QRecall isn't performing an exhaustive scan as often as it should.
What am I looking for in the logs which will confirm it is doing this approximately once a week with the default setting of 6.9 days?
Also is it possible to force an exhaustive scan?
Adrian Chapman wrote:QRecall is definitely not performing regular exhaustive scans, at best it is once per month and in May it didn't do it at all.
I should add that I have had cause to perform repairs a few times so would this reset the count down for FileSystemHistoryDays?
Filename | Capture Scan Summary.txt |
Description | Summary of capture scanning |
Filesize | 63 Kbytes |
Downloaded | 924 time(s) |
Download |
Adrian Chapman wrote:Thanks for yet another in depth explanation of what is going on.
I suppose my first question is do I have anything to worry about in terms of my schedules and exclusions? The only thing I ignore changes in is my Virtual machines folder which I archive once per day as the last activity. As I don't use my VMs much would it be better to not bother ignoring them?
As you can probably see from the logs, my System is on it's own drive, in fact now an SSD, and the users are on a Softraid RAID 1 array. The system volume and Users directory are saved to separate archives, which I thought to be a good way of doing things, i.e. keeping archives specific to volumes.
Adrian Chapman wrote:Why are these things so damned obvious in hindsight