Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 08:22:22 -0600 From: Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>, axl@iafrica.com, pantzer@ludd.luth.se Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIS with HPUX 10.20 Message-ID: <19990128082222.B67166@znh.org> In-Reply-To: <199901280906.UAA27849@godzilla.zeta.org.au>; from Bruce Evans on Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:06:58PM %2B1100 References: <199901280906.UAA27849@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 08:06:58PM +1100, Bruce Evans wrote: > Someday -C should avoid touching the file if possible, so that it > doesn't clobber the file's ctime and backups based on ctimes don't do > unnecessary work. This is possible if none of the attributes except > the file times would change, and fairly easy to implement if the file > doesn't have any links. Hm... Two conflicting goals: Avoid backing up too much. Identify deprecated files. The solutions I can think of (so far) are quite ugly... -- Zach Heilig <zach@uffdaonline.net> / Zach Heilig <zach@gaffaneys.com> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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