On 29.07.2012 11:19, teramide wrote: > Well, I wanted to keep the old timestamps so that the encrypted > volume looks like a file that's never used (this is the reason why > Truecrypt does this). But I guess there's a tradeoff to be made > here, so I will implement it the way you suggested.
You don't necessarily need to touch the source-files! Touching the backup-files achieves the same thing. > >>I'm using rsync to make backups. In my dataset, however, there > >>are a few encrypted Truecrypt volumes. When these files are > >>modified, the content changes but the timestamps are not > >>updated. Thus, rsync will not sync these files by default. I > >>would like to keep the behavior of Truecrypt and have rsync > >>update the files correctly. > > > >Why not change the date before running rsync? Unix has the "touch" > >command. I don't think windows has a utility to do that, but a > >google search for "change file date windows command line" turned > >up some likely options. Bis denn -- Real Programmers consider "what you see is what you get" to be just as bad a concept in Text Editors as it is in women. No, the Real Programmer wants a "you asked for it, you got it" text editor -- complicated, cryptic, powerful, unforgiving, dangerous. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
