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Retain folders' dates in treecopy

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Name: jumperpin
Date: January 22, 2008 at 18:40:46 Pacific
OS: cmd
CPU/Ram: P4@2g/512meg
Product: me
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OK, DOS geezers, am about to upgrade/migrate a RAID V array.

Would like to retain (or recreate) original folder/directory creation dates in copying thousands of nested folders.

Any hope in xxcopy or robocopy? Maybe some fancy-dancy batch file laced w/ "for" branches?

Do all in moderation...'specially moderation itself.



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Name: klint
Date: January 23, 2008 at 07:05:04 Pacific
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Hi

> OK, DOS geezers

I am not a DOS geezer. I'm a Win32 Command Processor geezer.

> Would like to retain (or recreate) original folder/directory creation dates in copying thousands of nested folders

I don't know the answer, but I've typed "copy directory tree preserving date stamp" into Google and it came up with

http://www.download32.com/last-modi...

and if you scroll down to 12Ghosts FileDate, it says in its description: "You can preserve date modified for a complete folder tree easily, for example after restoring files from a backup." Sounds like what you need.


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