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Re: October BBlisa Notes (finally)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Adam S. Moskowitz)
Mon Nov 23 12:08:58 1992
From: Adam S. Moskowitz <adamm@inset.com>
To: bblisa@inset.com
Date: Mon, 23 Nov 92 11:28:01 EST
In-Reply-To: <199211221939.AA19095@dl5000.bc.edu>; from "John_Rouillard@dl5000.bc.edu" at Nov 22, 92 2:39 pm
John's October BBLISA notes reminded me of a point I meant to bring up at
the meeting:
> There is one bug with the current GNU tar version. The option that
> resets the access time in the inode also resets the ctime which gnu
> tar uses to determine if a file should be dumps. So the mere act of
> dumping a file using the --atime-preserve guarantees that it will be
> on the following night's dump.
Does anyone else out there use ctime as a factor when deciding whether a
file should be backed-up? I don't, but I suppose I really should. After
all, a chmod(), chown(), or chgrp() needs to be preserved across a
restore, no?
Hmmm, the problem grows more complex each time I think about it.
BTW - Thanks for the good notes, John.
AdamM
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