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[Duplicity-talk] file selection behavior
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Jordan Rosenthal |
Subject: |
[Duplicity-talk] file selection behavior |
Date: |
Sat, 13 Oct 2018 15:44:08 -0400 |
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Hi,
I have a file selection question.
Suppose I have a directory in which most of the files in change rarely,
but one changes daily. A simple example would look like the following:
/top/sub/rarelychanges1.txt
/top/sub/rarelychanges2.txt
/top/sub/rarelychanges3.txt
/top/sub/changesdaily.txt
I would like to back up all the files in /top/sub except
changesdaily.txt so I create a filelist with rules that look like:
-/top/sub/changesdaily.txt
+/top/sub
This criteria works as intended, but has one unexpected behavior.
Because the modification time property on the directory /top/sub changes
whenever the file /top/sub/changesdialy.txt changes, every incremental
snapshot I make includes an entry for /top/sub to capture the directory
property change.
I understand why one would want this behavior in general, but I do not
care about the modification time change and would like to avoid
including this in the snapshot. On my system, this would prevent the
creation of excessive (daily) "duplicity-new-signatures.*.sigtar.gz"
files that do not contain content changes I care about.
Is there any way to do this?
Thanks,
Jordan
- [Duplicity-talk] file selection behavior,
Jordan Rosenthal <=