Re: [Duplicity-talk] How about adding option --omit-dir-times?

[edgar . soldin]

On 04.08.2013 13:50, Danil Semelenov wrote:
> For my particular usecase of duplicity for backupsit's not the matter of 
> space efficiency, but the matter of consistency of mtimes. I have a lot of 
> small backup archives with few files from file system in each. And every 
> backup archive stores its own mtimes for system directories (/root, 
> /home/user, /usr/local/bin, /etc, ...) Every time I wish to restore archive 
> system directories get new mtime. 

won't you get a new dir mtime anyhow? as duplicity does not overwrite on 
restore, you have to manually copy the data into folders , which in turn 
results in a new folder mtime.

> Another inconvinience of this workflow is when I run duplicity verify I see a 
> lot of dirs with changed mtimes, while I'm only interested in 
> added/changed/deleted files.

well, that's cosmetic and could be filtered when run manually via awk, sed or 
such.


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