Hi Marco, Thanks for your reply. The problem is that there are a lot of files to be checked so replacing ctime by time to support tar incremental backup should be more practical.
On Mon, May 23, 2016 at 11:46 AM, Marco Atzeri <marco.atz...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 23/05/2016 10:40, x y wrote: >> >> Hello, >> >> The MS Office applications are changing the ctime value of .doc and >> .xls files even if they are not modified. Opening and closing an >> office file without modifying the content is changing ctime and the >> unmodified document is included in the incremental tar archive. Could >> it be possible to use the mtime value instead of ctime to avoid the >> the reappearance of the unchanged files in the incremental archive? >> >> Test OS : Windows 7 Sp1 >> > > > find -ctime should be able you to build the list of files > that are changed and that tar should process > > Regards > Marco > > -- > Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html > FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ > Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html > Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple > -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
