- To: Herbert Xu <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [SLUG] Re: Security Breaches
- From: Umar Goldeli <umar@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu Mar 1 09:27:01 2001
- Cc: slug@xxxxxxxxxxx
dd will not affect the atimes on the files on the filesystem.
dd is your friend.
//umar.
> > Oh one more thing - it will alter the atime on /dev/sdb1 (or whatever) -
> > but that's not exactly going to be useful anyway.
>
> If your backup software didn't preserve the atime then perhaps it's time
> to use something a little bit more sophisticated.