From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: tar incremental backups and ctime problem
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 09:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <09f604cd-61df-e0c7-b313-1dcf1ef59b4e@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOKAGPOzSYkmFRJazgQMwjUCKsKaBbE9gcVAdNnNvYUkmc=9Bw@mail.gmail.com>
On 23/05/2016 10:54, x y wrote:
> 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.
Bottom post on this mailing list, please.
It is not clear to me your expectation:
- are you asking how to use ctime to select the file with tar alone ?
It is not possible for my understanding of the manual.
- Are you asking the package maintainer to change the behaviour of
cygwin tar ? Unlikely to happen, but I leave to him.
Regards
Marco
>
> 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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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-05-23 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-05-23 8:40 x y
2016-05-23 8:47 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-05-23 8:54 ` x y
2016-05-23 9:06 ` Marco Atzeri [this message]
2016-05-23 9:18 ` x y
2016-05-23 14:29 ` Eric Blake
2016-05-23 14:57 ` x y
2016-05-23 15:24 ` Vince Rice
2016-05-23 15:35 ` Marco Atzeri
2016-05-23 16:56 ` x y
2016-05-23 19:02 ` Eric Blake
2016-05-23 17:19 ` Erik Soderquist
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