Bacula-users

Re: [Bacula-users] Use modify time, not access time

2012-11-19 06:54:55
Subject: Re: [Bacula-users] Use modify time, not access time
From: Martin Simmons <martin AT lispworks DOT com>
To: bacula-users AT lists.sourceforge DOT net
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2012 11:50:41 GMT
>>>>> On Sat, 17 Nov 2012 11:12:19 +1100, Gary R Schmidt said:
> 
> Thinking about it - if you "mv" a directory somewhere, and then "mv" it 
> back, you have, effectively, created a new directory tree.
> 
> Without looking at the source code, if I was writing the scanner, at 
> *this* point I would mark that directory tree to be backed up, even if 
> the name is the same you cannot know that the content is identical, for 
> all you know that three was deleted and re-created.
> 
> Why bother walking a tree that is new, once you know it is new, you back 
> it up.

That won't work very well, because the ctime and mtime of a directory are also
modifed when you create a file in it.

__Martin

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