* Chris G <c...@isbd.net> [110308 14:30]: > 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? :-) > > OP, tell us what you want, do you want the *original* mailboxes to be > 'N' still or do you want the copies to have the 'N'?
I'd like the original (source) mailboxes to retain their N's, I'm not concerned about copying over this to the backup copy. Thanks, John -- John Magolske http://B79.net/contact
