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Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.3 maintain ctime on restored files?

2010-01-14 16:14:39
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] bacula 3.0.3 maintain ctime on restored files?
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 21:11:24 GMT
>>>>> On Wed, 13 Jan 2010 20:18:19 -0600, Steve Costaras said:
> 
> Ok, found out why when I do a restore of files bacula keeps thinking 
> that they are 'new' and will back them up again.   Seems that bacula 
> changes ctime to the time of the restore of the file not the original 
> ctime.   atime & mtime are properly set on the files at restore but not 
> ctime.
> 
> I didn't see anything in the on-line docs, is there a flag in the 
> fileset directive to keep ALL time values (atime, mtime, ctime) to be 
> exactly as they were on the original file when doing a restore?

No, there is no way to do that.  It is impossible to modify the ctime on unix
without hacking the disk directly.

__Martin

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