Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Is there an option to avoid comparing unchanged directories?

[Peter Valdemar Mørch]

Karjala karjala_lists-at-karjala.org |Lists| wrote:
> The "last-modified" date on a directory shows when there has been any 
> change in a file inside that directory or any of its subdirectories.

That assumption is not correct. Not with reiser-fs on my linux box at 
least, as this will illustrate:

address@hidden:~/work> ls -ld /home/
drwxr-xr-x 5 root root 120 2006-03-31 22:43 /home/
address@hidden:~/work> ls -ld /home/peter/
drwxr-xr-x 58 peter peter 3560 2006-07-21 10:13 /home/peter/
address@hidden:~/work> ls -l /home/peter/.xsession-errors
-rw------- 1 peter peter 70805535 2006-07-21 19:26 
/home/peter/.xsession-errors


> So it makes sense that somebody might want to save time and CPU and HD time 
> by asking rdiff-backup to ignore directories that haven't been changed 
> since the last backup.

I don't follow that.

> Is there such an option on rdiff-backup?

Have no idea! :D

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