Re[2]: More on daily backups..

Hello Miek,

MG> [On 21 Jan, @00:29, James wrote in "Re[2]: [hdup-user] More on dai ..."]
MG> ah, than your slashes were the other way around :-) '\' vs '/'
MG> I thought your were talking windows here :-)

Oops. I use windows desktops all day long and linux servers... often
make that mistake!

MG> well using a short C program which utilizes that stat call, you can
MG> set it to whatever you want (I guess). So prerun, becomes: dump + restat,

It turned out to be not that hard to modify the tar source to ignore
the change date, which is definitely easier for me than my very rusty
C skills. Its actually a bit odd, because the various places where it
checks the change date are usually conditional on one or two different
options. But the description of the option -g didn't make a lot of
sense to me and it seemed a simple solution to make a special "hdup"
version of tar to suit my purposes.

Anyway, seems to work fine as long as there aren't any other
unintended consequences (e.g. things not being backed up that
should...) but it appears to be doing what it should. The daily from
yesterday was 17 meg versus a typical 75 meg! All I have left is to
fix a couple un-rotated web server logs and I bet I'll be below 10
meg.

-- Jamie