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Re: [Bug-tar] Trying to figure out why unchanged file gets backed up in


From: Helmut Waitzmann
Subject: Re: [Bug-tar] Trying to figure out why unchanged file gets backed up in level 1 backup
Date: Fri, 03 Sep 2004 21:29:05 +0200
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"Bret Mckee" <address@hidden> writes:

>Here are the entries for the tar -tv output, and again the dates/sizes
>didn't change:
>mckee.list.0:-rw------- root/root           1692 2004-03-23 10:04:03
>./proj/proj-2.3/client/pubring.gpg
>mckee.list.1:-rw------- root/root          1692 2004-03-23 10:04:03
>./proj/proj-2.3/client/pubring.gpg

That are the file modification times.  To trigger a new backup it
suffices to have a new inode change time.  So, what's the output of the
command

   $ ls -logdc --full-time -- ./proj/proj-2.3/client/pubring.gpg

?  Is it newer than the modification time of the tape archive file?
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