On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 10:54:23AM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > On Mon, Mar 07, 2011 at 03:37:45PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: > > After doing an rsync backup, the "N" preceding mailboxes with new mail > > is removed from all mailboxes. I suppose this is a result of the mbox > > files being touched somehow by the rsync process. Is there any way to > > prevent this? > > Use rsync -t. This preserves the file modification times on the > mailboxes. Note that it may be possible that there will be a race > condition causing mail folders which have mail delivered during the > rsync to not show new mail. If this happens at all, it will most > likely be pretty rare (i.e. it will still be much better than losing > the N flag on *all* mailboxes every time). > Surely "rsync -t" means *copy* the modification time to the destination, what the OP wants is to preserve the modification and access times of the source files being copied (I think).
-- Chris Green
