From: Marco Atzeri <marco.atzeri@gmail.com>
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: tar incremental backups and ctime problem
Date: Mon, 23 May 2016 08:47:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <9fdf98cf-e3d1-e453-1c98-2c206afe81c9@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAOKAGPP0o6vV2KTpfs4M0DyqwHA3pVw-+xkwLmjyWpAFthbA+A@mail.gmail.com>
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 8:47 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 [this message]
2016-05-23 8:54 ` x y
2016-05-23 9:06 ` Marco Atzeri
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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