GNU-tar vs dump(1)

[John F. Haugh II]

In article <6099 at polya.Stanford.EDU> weening at Gang-of-Four.Stanford.EDU (Joe Weening) writes:
>One thing that worries me about using tar for dumps is that it updates
>the access time of all the files that it reads.  Is there any way to
>avoid this?

Yup, restore the old access and modified times after scribbling the
file to tape.  That's why you have the source code ...
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