Hello Chris,

Thank you for your comment.

On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:13 AM, Christopher Stone wrote:

> 
> I don't know if this will fix that problem or not, but it was pretty easy to find:
> 
> rsync man page:
> 
> -t, --times                 preserve modification times

Yes, I found it, but the same man page says:

       -a, --archive
              This is equivalent to -rlptgoD. It is a quick way of saying  you
              want  recursion  and want to preserve almost everything (with -H
              being a notable omission).  The  only  exception  to  the  above
              equivalence  is when --files-from is specified, in which case -r
              is not implied.

              Note that -a does not preserve hardlinks, because finding multi-
              ply-linked  files is expensive.  You must separately specify -H.

So, my options, "-aEHv" must contain "-t" as well. In fact, I have not tried to backup with the option "-m", and I should perhaps try it.

Thank you.

Best regard,

Nobumi Iyanaga
Tokyo,
Japan