<term><amkeyword>record</amkeyword> <amtype>boolean</amtype></term>
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<para>Default:
-<amkeyword>yes</amkeyword>.
-Whether to ask the backup program to update its database (e.g. <filename>/etc/dumpdates</filename>
+<emphasis remap='I'>yes</emphasis>.
+Whether to ask the backup program to update its database (e.g. <filename>/var/lib/dumpdates</filename>
for DUMP or <filename>/usr/local/var/amanda/gnutar-lists</filename> for GNUTAR) of time stamps.
This is normally enabled for daily backups and turned off for periodic archival runs.</para>
</listitem>