On Monday 17 January 2005 17:45, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Mon, Jan 17, 2005 at 12:44:01PM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Monday 17 January 2005 11:09, Jon LaBadie wrote: > >... > >> >The final item is to report back your success to the list. I'd >> > like to use JS's star as it has the ability on Solaris, to not >> > change the atime or the ctime during backup. >> >> atime at least seems to be covered in the new tar-1.15-1 Jon, here >> is the --help screen: ------------------------ >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# tar --help >> Usage: tar [OPTION...] [FILE]... >> GNU `tar' saves many files together into a single tape or disk >> archive, and can restore individual files from the archive. > >... > >> Handling of file attributes: >> >> --atime-preserve don't change access times on dumped >> files > >That option has been there for a long time. However, if you use it >then the ctime gets changed. That is a normal OS feature of > unix-like systems. Dump programs, as they do not work through the > file system, don't affect either atime nor ctime. It would be nice > if backups with tar could to that also. > >Shilly found an obscure ioctl that was added to Solaris to support >some Sun product. It allows the resetting of atime without > affecting ctime. It is not guarenteed to remain in Solaris, but > has been there for over 10 years. That is the Solaris-specific > capability of star to which I referred.
I see. And how old is it over your way? Its in the teens here. I lasted just long enough in the shop to sharpen some drill bits for the electrician next door. Big 2 & 9/16" forstner stuffs. Still thawing my feet... Damned sugar. -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.32% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attorneys please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2005 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved.
