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