Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 +0000 on Friday, May 22, 2020:
> On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > If I add '--omit-dir-times' to $Conf{RsyncArgsExtra}, then the backups
> > set all the directory dates to the beginning of the Epoch.
> >
> > For example
> > drwxr-xr-x 3 backuppc www-data 1024 Dec 31 1969 pc/
> >
> > (note this is 1/1/70 00:00:00 GMT)
> >
> > This is inconsistent with normal rsync wich just uses --omit-dir-times
> > to omit directories from --times when looking for *changes*
> >
> > I was expecting and would have liked the normal behavior of
> > --omit-dir-times to speed up backups...
> >
> > Is this a bug???
>
> No, it's expected behavior, you seem to have misunderstood what this
> rsync option does.
>
> What it does is omit directories from the modification times that it
> sets. In other words, you're telling it not to set the times on
> directories it copies. The beginning of the epoch is pretty reasonable
> for directories which have no specific time set.
>
Actually, at least the manpage is unclear.
And *differs* from the default behavior of native rsync (at lesat on
Ubuntu) that sets the dir time to the current time -- which is more
reasonable than some arbitrary epoch = 0 time.
That is what I would have expected and I believe should be the default
behavior...
> This option has no implications for which directories are selected to be
> copied.
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