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From: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.wizards
Subject: Re: GNU-tar vs dump(1)
Summary: Use the Source, Luke.
Message-ID: <11056@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US>
Date: 14 Jan 89 22:04:43 GMT
References: <17999@adm.BRL.MIL> <629@mks.UUCP> <11@estinc.UUCP> <10797@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US> <1966@netmbx.UUCP> <6099@polya.Stanford.EDU>
Reply-To: jfh@rpp386.Dallas.TX.US (John F. Haugh II)
Organization: River Parishes Programming, Dallas TX
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In article <6099@polya.Stanford.EDU> weening@Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
>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?

Yup, restore the old access and modified times after scribbling the
file to tape.  That's why you have the source code ...
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