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Re: tar incremental backups and ctimeâ problem
- From: x y <x1y2w3 at gmail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 11:54:36 +0300
- Subject: Re: tar incremental backups and ctimeâ problem
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Hi Marco,
Thanks for your reply. The problem is that there are a lot of files to
be checked so replacing ctime by time to support tar incremental
backup should be more practical.
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com> wrote:
> On 23/05/2016 10:40, x y wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> The MS Office applications are changing the ctime value of .doc and
>> .xls files even if they are not modified. Opening and closing an
>> office file without modifying the content is changing ctime and the
>> unmodified document is included in the incremental tar archive. Could
>> it be possible to use the mtime value instead of ctime to avoid the
>> the reappearance of the unchanged files in the incremental archive?
>>
>> Test OS : Windows 7 Sp1
>>
>
>
> find -ctime should be able you to build the list of files
> that are changed and that tar should process
>
> Regards
> Marco
>
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