On Wed, Mar 03, 2021 at 05:40:19PM -0800, Samuel Sieb wrote:
There are a few different types of full-disk backup, but if it's
file-based and the atimes are modified, that's the intent of the
backup process. The atimes are used to determine which files to
backup. A scrub is not a backup and shouldn't modify the atimes.
I can't imagine why you would use atime instead of ctime for backups.
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Matthew Miller
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