I expect from that command no more and no less than what is explained in
the man page:
Update (and list) only those files in the destination directory
/backup which are older (less recent inode change or file
modification times) than files with the same name found in the source
file tree home:
$ pax -r -w -v -Y -Z home /backup
While that works as explained when copying to a ffs drive, running the
same command again and again to a ext2fs target *all* files are copied
again, even those already updated, what suggests me that pax(1) fails to
get ext2fs timestamps right. But this is asking to much to OpenBSD,
right? Linux don't even support ffs. That's why I didn't put much care
in reporting this issue or sending it to bugs@. Besides, in general, to
backup my files, I don't trust synchronizing files (for which I use
rsync) to foreign file systems, in this case I save a *.tag.gz to the
drive.
By the way, currently I'm not using OpenBSD in any production system but
in my desktop and just for fun. So, most of the time when I post
something here I'm not asking for help but trying to contribute to the
project. I appreciate your concern about my luck anyways.
--
Walter
Using my patched version of OpenBSD mail(1).
https://en.roquesor.com/Downloads/mail_patches.tar.gz
