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From: terry@jgaltstl.UUCP (terry linhardt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin
Subject: Re: SUMMARY: Backup while in multi-user mode
Summary: try cpio with -a option
Message-ID: <457@jgaltstl.UUCP>
Date: 26 May 91 17:34:21 GMT
References: <1991May20.204327.17694@erg.sri.com> <690@silence.princeton.nj.us> <1991May24.013214.2526@servalan.uucp>
Organization: The Lafayette Group, St. Louis, MO.
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In article <1991May24.013214.2526@servalan.uucp>, rmtodd@servalan.uucp (Richard Todd) writes:
> 1. "dump" preserves the access times on files, and "restore" restores the
> files with the access times set correctly.  "cpio" neither records the access
> times in its archive nor leaves the access times of the files on disk 
> unaffected.  Thus, "cpio" screws up any schemes one may have for locating 
> user files that haven't been accessed in, say, 6 months and automatically
> moving them off to tape and deleting them.  
> 
This statement is not necessarily correct. If you use cpio with
the -a option access times are *not* reset.

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