Enhancement: Add option to let `backup` trust mtime without checking ctime The `backup` command used to require that both `ctime` and `mtime` of a file matched with a previously backed up version to determine that the file was unchanged. In other words, if either `ctime` or `mtime` of the file had changed, it would be considered changed and restic would read the file's content again to back up the relevant (changed) parts of it. The new option `--ignore-ctime` makes restic look at `mtime` only, such that `ctime` changes for a file does not cause restic to read the file's contents again. The check for both `ctime` and `mtime` was introduced in restic 0.9.6 to make backups more reliable in the face of programs that reset `mtime` (some Unix archivers do that), but it turned out to often be expensive because it made restic read file contents even if only the metadata (owner, permissions) of a file had changed. The new `--ignore-ctime` option lets the user restore the 0.9.5 behavior when needed. The existing `--ignore-inode` option already turned off this behavior, but also removed a different check. Please note that changes in files' metadata are still recorded, regardless of the command line options provided to the backup command. https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2495 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2558 https://github.com/restic/restic/issues/2819 https://github.com/restic/restic/pull/2823