On Mon, 13 Feb 2006, Wiebe Cazemier wrote: > Something _has_ to be devised to detect changes in files properly, to > avoid files not being backed up. Perhaps you could try to implement an > option for ctime checking, and possibly discover again why that's not > possible. If it _is_ impossible, my --checksum-diffs should be > implemented, IMO.
what you really want is something akin to rsync -c ... which forces checksumming of every file, regardless of mtime/size. throwing more stat elements into the comparison is only approximately an improvement (you could also throw in dev:inode -- which would handle your mv situation most of the time, but breaks in some cases like snapshotting which preserves inode without preserving dev). > And, would it be possible to check for changes occured in files _during_ > a backup with ctimes? That would be more reliable then mtimes. ctime doesn't change when you modify the file, only mtime does. -dean _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at rdiff-backup-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
