>>>>> "Joseph" == Joseph Alotta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

Joseph> Thanks to some of you, I have been using psync to do my backups now
Joseph> for a few weeks
Joseph> and like it very much.  One thing that kind of bothers me is that it
Joseph> tells me it is
Joseph> backing up files that have changed, when I am not sure how they have
Joseph> changed.  For
Joseph> example: all the developer tools, all man page files, and all the
Joseph> locale files for
Joseph> different languages.  I never mess with most of this stuff.  Do anyone
Joseph> have any comments
Joseph> on why this stuff may be changing?

Unfortunately, symbolic links on an HFS+ filesystem always come back
with a mod-time of "now", so the timestamp is useless.  psync seems
to have to always transfer every symbolic link every time.

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