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From: weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU-tar vs dump(1)
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Date: 14 Jan 89 02:18:28 GMT
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In-reply-to: felix@netmbx.UUCP (Felix Gaehtgens)

One thing that worries me about using tar for dumps is that it updates
the access time of all the files that it reads.  Is there any way to
avoid this?
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Joe Weening                                Computer Science Dept.
weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU          Stanford University