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If you can’t trust modification time you are doing something so unusual that you probably need to be handling your backups privately anyway.


I don't think so.

Sometimes modification time of a file which is not downloaded on computer A, but modified by computer B is not reflected immediately to computer A.

Henceforth, backup software running on computer A will think that the file has not been modified. This is a known problem in file synchronization. Also, some applications modifying the files revert or protect the mtime of the file for reasons. They are rare, but they're there.




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