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The Tuesday 2007-04-24 at 10:45 +0100, G.T.Smith wrote:
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> BTW Tend to use touch for modifying timestamps (not grep).
You misunderstood me. I don't use grep to modify the timestamps. I use
grep for grepping - and as a side effect, as the files are accessed, the
timestamps change.
> Depending on the backup tool you are using you can retain the original
> time stamp of the files.
Access means reading, not modifying - there is no point in backing
up simply "accessed" files.
Or you mean my restore method? I used a simple "copy file", mc, I think.
All files got the date the backup was made. Not what I intended, but
couldn't help it.
> However, I would not deactivate time stamping on the part of the file
> system holding /var/spool/cron as time stamping is used by the run-cron
> script to establish when to fire the certain cron scripts.... There may
> be other application using file time stamping to control activity.
Not the access time. As I said, I have disabled that timestamp about two
years ago with no side effects as far as I know.
You know that by simply watching a log file, it's access time is
continuously modified, creating write activity in the disk? That alone is
reason enough to disable that time stamp on a portable.
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Cheers,
Carlos E. R.
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