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and subject line Bug#244168: fixed in rsync 3.1.1-1
has caused the Debian Bug report #244168,
regarding rsync: preserve atime option
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Package: rsync
Version: 2.5.5-0.2
Severity: wishlist
Tags: upstream
When using rsync to perform backups, a preserve atime option becomes
extremely desireable. Certain MUAs depend on atime preservation to
determine whether a mailbox has new mail. Making backup runs as
transparent as possible also just makes sense.
This issue has been discussed extensively in the past:
http://rsync.samba.org/cgi-bin/rsync.fom?file=13
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2001-September/000139.html
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200109/msg01934.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2002-September/003656.html
http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2003-August/006858.html
The problem seems to be that atime cannot be "preserved" without causing
the ctime to change. Well, no kidding. But then the patch to enable
this *optional* feature keeps getting ignored because this side-effect
may cause confused and uninformed people to become confused and
uninformed, and because some people have seen the equivalent feature in
tar and cpio be abused in the past. The suggestion of noting this
specific side effect in the documentation is also ignored.
And no, remount a filesystem with noatime before running rsync, then
remount it again without noatime afterwards, is not an elegant solution.
I don't really expect anything to happen as a result of logging this
bug, but I couldn't find it on the list and it really is something that
needs to be fixed at some point.
Thanks.
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William Ono <[email protected]>
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Source: rsync
Source-Version: 3.1.1-1
We believe that the bug you reported is fixed in the latest version of
rsync, which is due to be installed in the Debian FTP archive.
A summary of the changes between this version and the previous one is
attached.
Thank you for reporting the bug, which will now be closed. If you
have further comments please address them to [email protected],
and the maintainer will reopen the bug report if appropriate.
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Paul Slootman <[email protected]> (supplier of updated rsync package)
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Date: Thu, 10 Jul 2014 14:28:11 +0200
Source: rsync
Binary: rsync
Architecture: source amd64
Version: 3.1.1-1
Distribution: unstable
Urgency: low
Maintainer: Paul Slootman <[email protected]>
Changed-By: Paul Slootman <[email protected]>
Description:
rsync - fast, versatile, remote (and local) file-copying tool
Closes: 244168 589529 647145 649914 699165 714782 730149 738708
Changes:
rsync (3.1.1-1) unstable; urgency=low
.
* new upstream release
Includes config.* update, closes:#714782
Includes preallocate patch, closes:#649914
* Bumped Standards-Version to 3.9.5.0 (no change necessary).
* revert to using included zlib as there have been numerous reports of failed
transfers when using -z with the separate zlib.
* use the now included systemd file instead of our own copy.
* use hardening=+all flags, thanks to hint from [email protected]
* add noatime patch which adds the --noatime option, which adds the O_NOATIME
flag when opening files, to no update the access time on kernels that
support that (linux 2.6.8 and later).
closes:#738708,#244168
* changed backtick usage in rules for CFLAGS and LDFLAGS to $(shell ...)
closes:#699165
* added autofs to Should-Start: in init.d script.
closes:#730149
* added README.Debian file to explain how to get the daemon running.
closes:#589529
* simplify init.d nice parameter checking.
closes:#647145
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