On Sun, 14 Aug 2005 10:51:41 -0500, Michael Sullivan wrote: > Under what condition is the date of a directory (shown with ls -l) > updated? Is it when the directory is created, or when a file somewhere > below the directory is updated or some other time? I make weekly > backups of the user accounts on my server box. Because space and CD > media are in limited supply (at least for me) I write the backups to CD > once a month. Full backups are made on Sunday and after a new Sunday's > backup has been made I edit the previous Sunday's backup and delete all > files that hadn't been changed recently when that backup (the one I'm > editing) was made. This is a somewhat time-consuming method. I was > just wondering if the directory date could give me a clue as to the date > of the most recent file updated under that directory...
Try rdiff-backup, it does more or less what you are doing manually,
without all the hassle or potential for error.
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Neil Bothwick
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