Re: [rdiff-backup-users] backup misses files with older date

[Matthew Flaschen]

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