Are you saying that mv on a file doesn't change the ctime?  If so, which
filesystem is that please?

__Martin


>>>>> On Mon, 12 Feb 2024 22:52:08 +0100, Daniel Etter said:
> 
> mv does not change the dates, only cp change the time, because it is a new
> file.
> 
> Daniel
> 
> 
> 
> Am Mo., 12. Feb. 2024 um 22:39 Uhr schrieb Chris Wilkinson <
> winstonia...@gmail.com>:
> 
> > I don't have mtimeonly set.
> >
> > I mv'd a sample file in my home directory as an experiment and saw that
> > stat reports that atime, mtime remain unchanged but ctime does change as
> > you expected.
> >
> > When I stat one of the files I moved before, I see that ctime did not
> > change.
> >
> > I had previously mv'd a whole subdirectory containing several
> > subdirectories, each with a dozen or so files. I see that the mv'd
> > subdirectory ctime changes but ctime for the contained subdirectories and
> > files does not.
> >
> > This presumably is why they did not get backed up. I set the accurate flag
> > in the job resource and then the files do get backed up.
> >
> > -Chris-
> >
> > On Mon, 12 Feb 2024, 20:33 Martin Simmons, <mar...@lispworks.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Do you have the mtimeonly option set in the FileSet?
> >>
> >> I would expect mv to change the ctime.  Can you repeat this (mv not
> >> changing
> >> the ctime)?
> >>
> >> __Martin
> >>
> >>
> >> >>>>> On Sun, 11 Feb 2024 09:17:10 +0000, Chris Wilkinson said:
> >> >
> >> > I'm seeing that files that are mv'd within the same folder are not being
> >> > backed up by incr or diff backups. This is on Bacula v11, Debian 11.
> >> >
> >> > I'm guessing that this is because mtime and ctime are unchanged by mv
> >> and
> >> > that the full path is not used.
> >> >
> >> > This is not a big problem I suppose because the files are still there in
> >> > the last full and will get backed up in the next full.
> >> >
> >> > I'm just wondering if this is intended functionality or a
> >> mis-configuration
> >> > on my part?
> >> >
> >> > Chris Wilkinson
> >> >
> >>
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