Ah, OK, I was not aware.

I suppose you didn't find an option in the lengthy menu in the man  
page which would fix that.

Best,
Emmanuel

On Jun 16, 2011, at 4:48 PM, Nobumi Iyanaga wrote:

> Hello Emmanuel,
>
> Thank you for your reply.
>
> On Jun 16, 2011, at 11:25 PM, Emmanuel LEVY wrote:
>
>> If you want a mirror forget about backup and perl, and go for  
>> rsync. Just say : do shell script "rsync -a --delete 'the source'  
>> 'the dest'", it's killer. Many options, it's a pleasure.
>
> Well, it was "rsync -aHEv -delete" which was the start point of my  
> unhappy experience. It seems to work well for Unix files, but for  
> some older files/folders (I couldn't sort out what kinds of files/ 
> folders...), it messed up their modified time (updating the modified  
> time to the time of the backup). This is why, I will no longer use  
> it...
>
> In fact, psync (a perl module) was much more reliable. But it cannot  
> be compiled on Snow Leopard.
>
>>
>> FWIW, as you know we (quomodo.com) use intensively the features of  
>> Smile and Satimage osax, but we are dropping "backup".
>
> It's pity... But I understand.
>
> Thank you anyway for this very useful command!
>
> Best regard,
>
> Nobumi Iyanaga
> Tokyo,
> Japan