On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 09:11:59PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:50:26PM -0600, Derek Martin wrote: > > 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. :) > > > In what the "rsync -t" means or in what the OP wanted? :-)
The former. It does what I said, and (at least when the destination is local and you do not specify an alternative program to use) does *not* do what you said, though I admit, it seems like it ought to, or that there should be two separate flags that control access time preservation for each source and destination files. If you don't believe me, try it... then run stat on all the files you copied. I did. -- 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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