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From: john@xanth.UUCP (John Owens)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Re: Dump and Cpio for backups
Message-ID: <1396@xanth.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 24-Jun-87 16:16:55 EDT
Article-I.D.: xanth.1396
Posted: Wed Jun 24 16:16:55 1987
Date-Received: Fri, 26-Jun-87 06:13:23 EDT
References: <1007@killer.UUCP>
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Organization: Old Dominion University, Norfolk Va.
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Keywords: dump, cpio, i-node modification times
Summary: mount the fs readonly

In article <1007@killer.UUCP>, jfh@killer.UUCP (John Haugh) writes:
> We recently had to backup a file system over Ethernet using cpio and when
> dump(1)ing the system today, dump wanted to backup everything.  I realize
> that this is because I told cpio to reset the access times on the files
> after saving them.  Now for the questions.
> 	2). Has anyone got a PD cpio that knows how to read physical disks
> 		and thus not change any of the times in the inode?

If you umount the filesystem and remount it -r (read-only), the access
times will not be updated.

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