On 01/23/14 08:31, Albert Peschar wrote: > Thanks Nick, your snippet is very helpful. > >> Point it at anything with a modification time <= when the snapshot was >> created. Obviously anything inside the snapshot will have this property; >> as will a file you create prior to creating the snapshot. > > Colin, thanks for your explanation. But I'm definitely misunderstanding > something here: if I specify a file that was last modified 10 years > ago, how does that help you?
That will effectively disable the "recognize when files haven't changed" functionality, which will force Tarsnap to re-read files which it might otherwise have not bothered to re-read. -- Colin Percival Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid
