Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 14:06:16 -0500 (EST) From: John Quincy <jquincy@mail.burlco.lib.nj.us> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: backup w/o touching files' last-accessed times Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.95.991119140039.14669A-100000@mail.burlco.lib.nj.us>
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I'm using "dump" to backup users' e-mail nightly. Unfortunately this changes the last-accessed time of their INBOX so that their shell only reports "You have mail" instead of "You have new mail" when they log in. (Say they receive new mail at 2:55a and the backup is done at 3:00a. The last-accessed time is greater than the last-modified time, so the shell assumes the user has already read his latest mail.) Surely I'm not the only dope who's wondered about this. How do you do a backup without munging the last-accessed time on files? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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