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From: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att,unix-pc.general
Subject: Tape backup doesn't restore modification time
Keywords: tape backup
Message-ID: <1989Jul11.024334.28211@hybrid.UUCP>
Date: 11 Jul 89 02:43:34 GMT
Reply-To: mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP (Mark Dapoz)
Organization: My Good 'Ol 3B1, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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I finally had to use the 3B1 streaming tape to restore a complete section of
my file system.  I've used it to restore single files before but for some
reason it never occured to me that the /usr/bin/Trestore.sh program doesn't
preserve the file modification time.  Quickly looking at the shell script
reveals that it doesn't supply the -m flag to tapecpio!  Now if you're 
restoring something like /usr/bin it's not very nice to set all the modification
times to the current date.  So beware, either add the -m flag or live with
having all the modifcation times messed up.  Has anyone written a good tape
backup utility for the 3B1?  The utilities supplied by AT&T really leave a
lot to be desired.
-- 
  Mark Dapoz  (mdapoz@hybrid.UUCP)  ...uunet!{mnetor dptcdc}!hybrid!mdapoz

I remind you that humans are only a tiny minority in this galaxy.
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