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 <z...@uffdaonline.net> / Zach Heilig <z...@gaffaneys.com>

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