Re: [Duplicity-talk] Unable to restore a recent version

[Oei, YC]

2011/6/2 Kenneth Loafman <address@hidden>:
> All UNIX backup programs use modtime to check for changes, so I'm not sure
> this would be widely used.  In my opinion, the program that modified the
> modtime should  get a bug report.  That's just not the way things are done
> in the real world.

For the case in question, shouldn't it be possible to detect the
change in ctime? I believe that changing the mtime back to the old
value (which is an option in many tagging tools) still always causes
an updated ctime. I know that at least dar ("disk archiver") checks
ctime rather than mtime.

YC