Often we need to preserve the information atime conveys, but I have found no way to get rsync to preserve this, nor any hint it is being worked on. It would be great if 'rsync -t' also set atime not just mtime -- or maybe a new option is desired for atime. I don't know if the -X mentioned in "NEWS file from CVS" covers this:> Added the --xattrs (-X) option to preserver extended attributes.but if so, it would be helpful if atime were explicitly mentioned. --- Brent
On 5/8/07, Brent Thompson <brent@kanha.hpl.hp.com> wrote:> Often we need to preserve the information atime conveys, but I have found > no way to get rsync to preserve this, nor any hint it is being worked on. > It would be great if 'rsync -t' also set atime not just mtime -- or maybe a > new option is desired for atime.The standard version of rsync does not support preserving atimes, but the rsync source distribution includes a patch "patches/atimes.diff" that adds an option --atimes to preserve atimes. I recommend you compile your own copy of rsync including this patch (reply if you need help/instructions for this) and then use it with its --atimes option. Matt