On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 06:29:47PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > 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).
Surely you are mistaken. :) -- Derek D. Martin http://www.pizzashack.org/ GPG Key ID: 0xDFBEAD02 -=-=-=-=- This message is posted from an invalid address. Replying to it will result in undeliverable mail due to spam prevention. Sorry for the inconvenience.
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