I agree. Bad behavior. But you could fight fire with fire, if you enjoy
scripting. Perl, Ruby, etc. will allow you to change the ctime back to what
they were.

On Thu, Jan 8, 2009 at 4:09 AM, Remco Post <r.post AT plcs DOT nl> wrote:

> On 8 jan 2009, at 11:34, Stephan Boldt wrote:
>
>  Hello everybody,
>>
>> we have an applications which changes the creation time (ctime) of
>> some big
>> files it uses, even though they are not really being recreated or
>> changed at
>> all. The modification time and filesize don't change, just the ctime!
>> Because of this changed ctime, TSM backs up these files every day
>> which is
>> really annoying, because they are rather big and their content hasn't
>> changed at all!
>> Is there a way to tell TSM to ignore the ctime?
>>
>>
> nope. On a real OS this would just be a file update (metadata only)
> but I guess your client is a windows system, so unfortunately, you're
> out of luck. Get the application fixed, updating the ctime on a file
> is bad behavior.
>
>
>  Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Kind regards,
>> Stephan
>>
>
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>
> Remco Post, PLCS
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