[Samba] Problem with xcopy /d & samba

[Shawn Wright]

A problem has arisen with the way samba handles file 
creation dates compared to NT/win2k, which prevents 
xcopy /d from working correctly.

On NT/Win2k, files copied from another NT machine using 
xcopy end up with the modified dates equal to the original 
modified date of the file, and the created and accessed 
dates become the date of the xcopy operation.

On Samba, files copied from an NT machine using xcopy 
end up with created & modified dates equal to the original 
modified date of the file, and the accessed date becomes 
the date of the xcopy operation.

Dates are as reported from a windows NT client in both 
cases. The problem is that xcopy /d will NOT work as 
expected when attempting to use it to only copy newer 
files from NT to samba. Instead XCOPY /D will copy *all* 
files. This is a problem as we hope to migrate a large # of 
files from NT to samba and minimize downtime by using 
xcopy /d to refresh any modified files. In this case we will 
use a tape backup/restore to handle the modified files, but 
it would be nice to know if xcopy can be made to work with 
samba in this way?


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Shawn Wright, Systems Manager
Shawnigan Lake School
http://www.sls.bc.ca
swright at sls.bc.ca