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Re: [Duplicity-talk] --skip-same-content: Option to skip files whose con


From: Nate Eldredge
Subject: Re: [Duplicity-talk] --skip-same-content: Option to skip files whose content hasn't changed
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2011 16:46:10 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 24 Nov 2011, Elifarley Callado Coelho Cruz wrote:

It would be nice to have an option to skip files which had their
modification time changed without any changes to their content.

Thanks to the rdiff algorithm, this effectively already happens. Duplicity only backs up the changes relative to the previous version of the file. If the data has not changed, it won't be backed up again. The file will still be entered in the backup (and the new mtime recorded), but no data will be stored and the size of the backup won't increase significantly. Try it and see!

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