mv does not change the dates, only cp change the time, because it is a new
file.

Daniel



Am Mo., 12. Feb. 2024 um 22:39 Uhr schrieb Chris Wilkinson <
winstonia...@gmail.com>:

> I don't have mtimeonly set.
>
> I mv'd a sample file in my home directory as an experiment and saw that
> stat reports that atime, mtime remain unchanged but ctime does change as
> you expected.
>
> When I stat one of the files I moved before, I see that ctime did not
> change.
>
> I had previously mv'd a whole subdirectory containing several
> subdirectories, each with a dozen or so files. I see that the mv'd
> subdirectory ctime changes but ctime for the contained subdirectories and
> files does not.
>
> This presumably is why they did not get backed up. I set the accurate flag
> in the job resource and then the files do get backed up.
>
> -Chris-
>
> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, 20:33 Martin Simmons, <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote:
>
>> Do you have the mtimeonly option set in the FileSet?
>>
>> I would expect mv to change the ctime.  Can you repeat this (mv not
>> changing
>> the ctime)?
>>
>> __Martin
>>
>>
>> >>>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 09:17:10 +0000, Chris Wilkinson said:
>> >
>> > I'm seeing that files that are mv'd within the same folder are not being
>> > backed up by incr or diff backups. This is on Bacula v11, Debian 11.
>> >
>> > I'm guessing that this is because mtime and ctime are unchanged by mv
>> and
>> > that the full path is not used.
>> >
>> > This is not a big problem I suppose because the files are still there in
>> > the last full and will get backed up in the next full.
>> >
>> > I'm just wondering if this is intended functionality or a
>> mis-configuration
>> > on my part?
>> >
>> > Chris Wilkinson
>> >
>>
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