Hello Michael, * On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:46:02PM +0100 Michael Tatge wrote: > tell tar to not modify atime. tar --atime-preserve > > HTH, Just tested it, it works as expected. Thank you. Anyway, just out of curiosity: If there would not be that option for tar, how could I achieve this? Again, thank you for your working tipp which is even better than what I had in mind, Spiro. -- Spiro R. Trikaliotis http://www.trikaliotis.net/