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Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "--compare-hash-at-time" question


From: Serge Zub
Subject: Re: [rdiff-backup-users] "--compare-hash-at-time" question
Date: Sat, 28 Mar 2009 02:43:33 +0300

Oops...
Thank you, Matt.

I need to compare only directory structure and files' content!


On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 2:02 AM, Matthew Flaschen <address@hidden> wrote:
Serge Zub wrote:
> Thanks for your reply.
> Yes, but with one significant note -- only differs in directory structure
> and file contents are impotent.
> Any changes in the metadata (file attributes, ACL and others) MUST BE
> ignored by the comparing algorithm!
> For example, if some file's last modification time has been changed while
> the content of this file is not changed -- this will be treated as no
> changes exists for this file.
> Is it possible?

Please reply on list unless it needs to be private.

As the man page says, --compare "only compares metadata"  If you need
full compares then use --compare-full.  Of course this is very slow.

Matt Flaschen


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