adamld Posted July 17, 2009 Report Share Posted July 17, 2009 I searched the forums, and found an answer for the Mac folks, but nothing for Windows. I'm running Retrospect Pro 7.6 on a Windows XP box to back up a networked Windows Vista (home prem.) box. I just tried restoring a bunch of files and folders to the networked PC, and while the files have the correct dates, all the folders have today's date. Is there a way to get the folders to reflect their correct dates? I know the information exists in the archive, because the first time I did the restore, it defaulted to all folders but 0 files, and the resulting empty hierarchy had all the right dates for the folders. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mayoff Posted July 20, 2009 Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 Try using a restore entire volume operation while you use a "subvolume" as the destination instead of the disk itself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamld Posted July 20, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 20, 2009 That works, Robin, thank you. What's odd is that the directories all had today's date until the end of the restore, at which point they all got reset to the archive date. It seems like the same thing could be done for "files and folders" level restores. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhwalker Posted July 21, 2009 Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 It seems like the same thing could be done for "files and folders" level restores. Not really. Consider the case where files are restored into an existing folder (directory). If Retrospect went in and changed the folder modification dates to be some distant date in the past when the particular file was backed up, that might not reflect the correct modification date for the folder. Could cause issues. "Correct" dates for some situations might not be the "correct" dates for other situations. When you blow away a filesystem subtree, everything can be set consistently. Russ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adamld Posted July 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted July 21, 2009 That means that... our whole solar system... could be, like... one tiny atom in the fingernail of some other giant being. This is too much! --Animal House Thanks all! -AdamLD Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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