On Saturday 20 December 2003 18:44, Jon LaBadie wrote:
>On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 04:15:20AM -0500, Gene Heskett wrote:
>> IMO, if mods to amanda were required, maybe its time to take a
>> long hard look at George Schilling's 'star'.  Among other things
>> star can, if the controlling tty sends it a ^\, it will spit back
>> out to the
>
>From my perspective, one of the attractive things about star is only
>nice for Solaris.  It can reset the access time WITHOUT resetting
>the change time for the inode.  So all 3 time stamps can be left
> unchanged.

Well, I can say that that may or may not be an advantage Jon.  How, if 
tar doesn't set a timestamp someplace, does it otherwise know that it 
did a full backup on this file yesterday, and only needs to do an 
incremental today?  Tar has no mechanism to dirctr it to check its 
older logs that I know of.

I've not figured it out, but the question isn't rhetorical either.

How's the snow up in Jersey?  We have about 7" on the ground here.

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