"J.P. King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > A cleanly written filesystem provides clean and abstract interfaces to do
> > anything you like with the filesystem, it's content and metadata. In such an
> > environment, there is no need for a utility that knows the disk layout (like
> > ufsdump does).
>
> I'd like to take a backup of a live filesystem without modifying the last
> accessed time. Can star do this? Cos otherwise it has a serious failing
> as far as I am concerned. I don't blame star for this, but I observe that
> (ufs)dump can do this.
There are two ways to do this.
The preferred method is to use a snapshot ;-)
The other method works as root if you use -atime (see man page) and is
available since 13 years.
Jörg
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