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Document access time handling

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Alexander Neumann 2017-11-28 21:36:20 +01:00
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$ restic -r /tmp/backup backup --files-from /tmp/files_to_backup /tmp/some_additional_file
Backing up special items
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Backing up special items and metadata
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**Symlinks** are archived as symlinks, ``restic`` does not follow them.
When you restore, you get the same symlink again, with the same link target
@ -140,6 +140,12 @@ If there is a **bind-mount** below a directory that is to be saved, restic desce
archived as a block device file and restored as such. This also means that the content of the
corresponding disk is not read, at least not from the device file.
By default, restic does not save the access time (atime) for any files or other
items, since it is not possible to reliably disable updating the access time by
restic itself. This means that for each new backup a lot of metadata is
written, and the next backup needs to write new metadata again. If you really
want to save the access time for files and directories, you can pass the
``--with-atime`` option to the ``backup`` command.
Reading data from stdin
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