On 9 Sep 2003 "Saylor, Ted" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I find rsync an excellent tool when I need to move multi-gigabyte > filesystems, because I can do most of the copying during the week - > then a quick cleanup sweep in our 4 hour outage window. > > I do need to somehow get the atime's to copy over, because as it > stands now I loose the age information (which we will soon be using > for auto-archiving) on things I copy with rsync. > > Would it be that hard to enhance rsync to copy the atime along with > the current mtime info? > > Does anyone have a speedy script, perl, or C program to "cleanup" the > atime after the final rsync is done?
You don't say what operating system or filesystem you're using, but on Linux there is no standard way to change the atimes of a file, so there is nothing rsync can do about it. If you persuade your friendly neighbourhood kernel hacker / vendor to add an operation to do this then I suppose rsync could support it. -- Martin -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
