Re: Using the --snaptime option

[Colin Percival <cperciva@tarsnap.com>]

On 01/23/14 08:31, Albert Peschar wrote:
> Thanks Nick, your snippet is very helpful.
> 
>> Point it at anything with a modification time <= when the snapshot was
>> created.  Obviously anything inside the snapshot will have this property;
>> as will a file you create prior to creating the snapshot.
> 
> Colin, thanks for your explanation. But I'm definitely misunderstanding
> something here: if I specify a file that was last modified 10 years
> ago, how does that help you?

That will effectively disable the "recognize when files haven't changed"
functionality, which will force Tarsnap to re-read files which it might
otherwise have not bothered to re-read.

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Colin Percival
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