On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 05:50:34PM +0000, Chris G wrote: > On Tue, Mar 08, 2011 at 02:40:06PM -0800, John Magolske wrote: > > * 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. > > > That's because rsync is changing the *access* time of the 'source' > mailboxes isn't it, I'm not sure you can stop it doing this.
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