On 2020-05-23 23:47, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Regarding your comment:
However, I don't think it makes sense to
"fix" it, since a backup shouldn't add metadata that changes each time
you
backup some data that hasn't changed.
Actually, the whole point of --ignore-dir-times is that the
Regarding your comment:
> However, I don't think it makes sense to
> "fix" it, since a backup shouldn't add metadata that changes each time you
> backup some data that hasn't changed.
Actually, the whole point of --ignore-dir-times is that the dir mod
time is not changed each time you rsync.
I wasn't previously familiar with the --omit-dir-times option. As you
discovered, the low-level parts of rsync_bpc don't 100% faithfully mimic
the native linux system calls. In particular, the mkdir() in rsync_bpc
doesn't set the mtime, since rsync updates it later (assuming
--omit-dir-times is
On 2020-05-22 16:52, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:46:54 + on Friday, May 22, 2020:
> On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22,
2020:
> > > On 2020-05-22 09:15,
Michael Stowe wrote at about 23:46:54 + on Friday, May 22, 2020:
> On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22, 2020:
> > > On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> > > What it does is omit directories
On 2020-05-22 16:19, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + on Friday, May 22, 2020:
> On 2020-05-22 09:15, backu...@kosowsky.org wrote:
> What it does is omit directories from the modification times that it
> sets. In other words, you're telling it not to
Michael Stowe wrote at about 22:24:13 + 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
> >
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
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
