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[Kenneth Loafman <kenneth@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

duplicity does not modify atime, but it will modify mtime during a
restore.  You control FS atime mods at mount time.  Turn it off for SSDs if
you wish.

...Ken



On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 4:43 AM, edso <question668404@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Question #668404 on Duplicity changed:
> https://answers.launchpad.net/duplicity/+question/668404
>
> edso proposed the following answer:
> On 30.04.2018 11:22, Tim wrote:
> > Tim is still having a problem:
> > Yes, atime is a filesystem feature.  But it is possible to
> > programatically read and store the original atime, then read the file,
> > then restore the original atime — using utimes() — such that atime
> > effectively does not change.  I am wondering if Duplicity 'preserves'
> > the original atime in such a manner.
>
> - just two more thoughts -
>
> 1.
> it looks like the approach above does write atime 2times to the fs, once
> during read, second during restoration of the old atime, which sounds
> counterproductive to your initial desire to cirumvent writing to your SSD.
>
> 2.
> a quick web search provided
>  https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16464228/python-get-
> last-reading-time-of-a-file
> where it is hinted that _relatime_ only does atime update if the stored
> atime is older than 24hs.
>
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