Checksum filter rule

Daniel Feenberg feenberg at nber.org
Sat Jul 28 05:23:43 MDT 2012



On Sat, 28 Jul 2012, teramide wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I'm using rsync to make backups. In my dataset, however, there are a few 
> encrypted Truecrypt volumes. When these files are modified, the content 
> changes but the timestamps are not updated. Thus, rsync will not sync these 
> files by default. I would like to keep the behavior of Truecrypt and have 
> rsync update the files correctly.

Why not change the date before running rsync? Unix has the "touch" 
command. I don't think windows has a utility to do that, but a google 
search for "change file date windows command line" turned up some likely 
options.

daniel feenberg



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