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Re: amanda change ctime

2005-01-26 22:34:18
Subject: Re: amanda change ctime
From: Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com>
To: amanda-users AT amanda DOT org
Date: Wed, 26 Jan 2005 22:21:34 -0500
On Wed, Jan 26, 2005 at 06:10:19PM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 at 2:40pm, Nina Pham wrote
> 
> >    The proplem is the ctime  some how got changed when backing 
> > up, so the files endup archived even though it's not been touched. Any idea?
> 
> Amanda uses dump and/or tar to actually get the bits off the disk.  
> Neither of those should touch ctime.
> 

If the "ENABLE_GNUTAR_ATIME_PRESERVE" macro is defined then ctime
will be modified by gnutar's restoration of atime.

jl
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