similar to: rsync feature needed: preserve atime

Hello I am making backup of a Plesk Debian server to /backup using Rsync. My questioin is how can I preserve the ctime, mtime, and atime of original files? Thanks

I posted a patch a few days ago that adds copying of atime. At that time, it was just enabled with -t/--times. After some time, we have figured out that that choice might not have been the best. Here's a new version of the patch (relative to CVS) that adds -A/--copy-atime instead. It also includes a test case. Any feedback on this patch and/or the previous one that I posted?

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

Dear Martin Pool. We regularly use rsync for making backups of our file systems but we have noticed that the atimes are not transferred with the files and are also always updated on the sender's side. Therefore, we have created a modified version of rsync based on rsync-2.6.6 protocol version 29 which transfers the access times with the transferred files and also allows to preserve the access

On Wed, 11 Jan 2006, joe wrote: >> Environment: > RELENG_4 20051028 >> Description: > [cp fails to update atime] > > this occurs regardless of whether or not the user has > rwx permissions on the source file. does not apply of > course if the source filesystem is mounted read-only. > they are read-write here. > > since the source file is indeed being read,

It looks like I need to elaborate further to get a feedback. I checked the rsync source code and it is using utime() to restore atime file attribute. It is fine to change ctime for that transferred file in this case. What we are having problem is that when rsync gets kicked off and transfers one file to the destination, this action changes ctime of "all" files in the same

Hi Everyone, The following feature request was received by a Debian user; could you comment on it? I think this seems reasonable, but perhaps should be enabled only conditionally (as if the argument parser isn't stressed enough). Thanks, Justin On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 05:09:09PM -0300, Pedro Zorzenon Neto wrote: > Package: rsync > Version: 2.6.2-2 > Severity: wishlist > Tags:

Hello, since we are using rsync for backing up millions of files in a virtual environment, and most of the virtual machines run on SSD cached storage, i`d be curious how that negatively impacts lifetime of the SSD`s when we do rsync run every night for backup my question: does rsync normal file comparison run to determine if anything has changed change atime of any files ? for me it seems,

In the past there have been discussions about adding a switch to rsync to preserve the atime on files being copied by rsync. I needed this function for a project I'm working on and decided to invent it. I've attached the diffs. Note that this has the limitations describe in previous emails, namely that preserving atime causes ctime to not be preserved. *** Patch follows *** ***

We should call ocfs2_inode_lock_atime instead of ocfs2_inode_lock in ocfs2_file_splice_read like we do in ocfs2_file_aio_read so that we can update atime in splice read if necessary. Signed-off-by: Tao Ma <tao.ma at oracle.com> --- fs/ocfs2/file.c | 6 +++--- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ocfs2/file.c b/fs/ocfs2/file.c index 775ac34..95cba48 100644

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7249 Summary: Add an option to use O_NOATIME Product: rsync Version: 3.1.0 Platform: Other OS/Version: Linux Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P3 Component: core AssignedTo: wayned at samba.org ReportedBy: nicolas.george at normalesup.org

Bradley, and the rsync development team, I came across the following message on the rsync bug tracking system, while searching for just this feature (access time preservation)... http://rsync.samba.org/cgi-bin/rsync/incoming?id=2509;expression=atime;user=guest ... where it is written... > Date: Mon, 7 Feb 2000 02:59:42 -0500 > From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" <bkuhn@ebb.org> >

Hi all, I''d like to clean up a temp. directory (files and subdirs within), but even the directory should be preserved, e.g.: tidy { "/var/trash": age => ''1m'', recurse => true, type => atime, rmdirs => true } This does not only remove the content of /var/trash with an atime greater 1m, but also /var/trash . How

Hi, I use rsync with hardlinks for backup, once a week doing checksums to ensure there's no filesystem corruption in the backed-up data. I also use tmpwatch, or something similar, to clean up /tmp, it removes files that have not been accessed recently. (atime older than some configured limit). I backup /tmp because I throw stuff in tmp that I might possibly need again but don't want to

Hi, I looked though documentation and also checked last 9 months of archives, but could not find the corresponding information. We are having an issue with incremental backup with arkeia. Arkeia checks if ctime/mtime of the file are changed, if so, it backs up. I realized that when I ran rsync from a cammnd line, it changed ctime, and preserved atime of the file in a destination as

Greetings all- I am conducting security testing on a device that uses Linux 2.4 with ext3. I am testing secure overwrite of remnant data in temporary files, but have run into a real good stumpper in the way Ext allocates data blocks. I've got 10 yrs of *NIX behind me, several with Linux, and this has really got me perplexed as I can't find any documentation explaining the subject

Hello Gluster Community, I did some experiments with setting the atime in different scenarios. In scenario 2,3 and 4 I have a simple replica 2 volume with worm-file-level on 1. Setting atime on XFS: *[davids at gluster-test1 src]$ touch test[davids at gluster-test1 src]$ sudo touch -a -t 197001010001 test[davids at gluster-test1 src]$ stat test File: ?test? Size: 0

Hi I have a single filesystem i don't mount noatime because mutt would work very good otherwise. Today, in a discussion about mkisofs, i learned that Linux since 2.6.8 supports "O_NOATIME" as an option to open. (see "man 2 open") So how comes that rsync doesn't do that and/or there is no option to switch on that behaviour? Bis denn -- Real Programmers

Hi, I know those questions have been asked before but that was more than an year ago. I'm hoping the situation has evolved now. I'd like to use rsync as a backup tool to move around some data. I often have to move hundreds of GB, and that takes some time. I'd like to use rsync so that if something happens, I can restart the migration without loosing what has already been

Hello, This patch adds client and server support for transmitting the st_nlink field across SSH2_FXP_NAME and SSH2_FXP_ATTRS responses. Please let me know if there anything I can do to improve this patch. I am not subscribed to list so please CC me. Index: sftp-common.c =================================================================== RCS file: /cvs/src/usr.bin/ssh/sftp-common.c,v retrieving