2019-04-25 01:54:15 +00:00
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Enhancement: Use ctime when checking for file changes
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2019-03-20 01:27:37 +00:00
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Previously, restic only checked a file's mtime (along with other non-timestamp
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2019-04-25 01:54:15 +00:00
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metadata) to decide if a file has changed. This could cause restic to not notice
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that a file has changed (and therefore continue to store the old version, as
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opposed to the modified version) if something edits the file and then resets the
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timestamp. Restic now also checks the ctime of files, so any modifications to a
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file should be noticed, and the modified file will be backed up. The ctime check
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will be disabled if the --ignore-inode flag was given.
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If this change causes problems for you, please open an issue, and we can look in
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2023-12-06 12:11:55 +00:00
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to adding a separate flag to disable just the ctime check.
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2019-03-20 01:27:37 +00:00
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https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2179
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2019-04-25 01:54:15 +00:00
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https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2212
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