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

[Chris Wilson]

On Fri, 9 Jan 2009, Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> 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.

Not using a hex editor on /dev/sda :)

Cheers, Chris.
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