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For background on how this happened see https://forum.restic.net/t/psa-attention-anyone-not-using-a-recent-master-ie-0-9-5-version-restic-will-not-detect-changed-files-if-mtime-is-reset-by-the-application-eg-ms-excel-and-xls-xlsx-files-on-macos/1772/8?u=fd0
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Enhancement: Use ctime when checking for file changes
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Previously, restic only checked a file's mtime (along with other non-timestamp
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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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to adding a seperate flag to disable just the ctime check.
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https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2179
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https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2212
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