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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup misses files with older date
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Matthew Flaschen |
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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup misses files with older date |
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Fri, 09 Jan 2009 20:19:43 -0500 |
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Thunderbird 2.0.0.18 (X11/20081125) |
Michael wrote:
>> GNUtar includes a file in the incremental backup if the mtime OR ctime
>> changes. Does rdiff-backup check only the mtime and ignores the ctime?
>
> there isn't anywhere to set ctime to an arbitary date/time?
Apparently, not on POSIX.
http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/touch-invocation.html
says "In any case, it is not possible, in normal operations, for a user
to change the ctime field to a user-specified value."
I'm not sure what normal operations means.
Matt Flaschen