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On 30.04.2018 02:52, Tim wrote:
> New question #668404 on Duplicity:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/668404
> 
> My data resides on a SSD and — thanks to Write Amplification — any modification of an atime will result in not only the inode being modified, but the whole block that it resides on being erased and rewritten. That is, obviously, undesirable.
> 
> When Duplicity backs up files, does it modify the atime attribute of the source files in the process?
> 

afaik. atime is a file system feature, which needs to be disabled in the file system as a mount option if it is not wanted (noatime, nodiratime). not sure what the implications for a system disk are though if you do so.

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