No change to directories but mirrors incremented

Tim Allen timallen@ls83.fsnet.co.uk
Thu, 5 Sep 2002 08:04:57 +0100


Ben Escoto wrote:

>>>>>> "TA" == Tim Allen <timallen@ls83.fsnet.co.uk>
>>>>>> wrote the following on Wed, 4 Sep 2002 14:04:38 +0100
>
>  TA> I have noticed that two directories (out of several hundred)
>  TA> give this each time, although no files have changed within the
>  TA> directories:

>  TA> Incrementing mirror file /shared/Data/Old Computers/Kamco/UTILS
>  TA> Incrementing mirror file /shared/Data/padspwr/LogicFiles
>
>  TA> Just the directories are being repeatedly backed-up, not the
>  TA> contents.
>
>Perhaps the permissions or the mod time have changed?  Do
>local::/shared/Data/Old Computers/Kamco/UTILS and
>golux::/shared/Data/Old Computers/Kamco/UTILS have the same stat
>information?  If not, then the directory will be marked as different.

local:

  File: "/shared/Data/Old Computers/Kamco/UTILS"
  Size: 4096            Blocks: 8          IO Block: -4611692134460813312
Direct
ory
Device: 303h/771d       Inode: 3385327     Links: 2
Access: (2770/drwxrws---)  Uid: (    0/    root)   Gid: (  502/   devel)
Access: Thu Sep  5 04:57:05 2002
Modify: Mon Jun 24 18:49:27 2002
Change: Mon Jul 29 23:09:41 2002

golux:

  File: "/shared/Data/Old Computers/Kamco/UTILS"
  Size: 8192       Blocks: 16        Directory
Access: (2770/drwxrws---)         Uid: (    0/    root)  Gid: (  502/
devel)
Device: 305        Inode: 1537479    Links: 2
Access: Thu Sep  5 04:41:25 2002
Modify: Mon Jun 24 18:49:27 2002
Change: Thu Sep  5 04:41:25 2002

The Modify times are the same, and the permissions. As you can probably tell
from the dirname, this isn't a directory I'd ever expect to be changing!

Tim Allen