Hello, Did you try to drag the files from the Samba Box with something like smbtar OR smbmount + tar Probably long but it seems to work.
Surlignage Shawn Wright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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? > > > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- > Shawn Wright, Systems Manager > Shawnigan Lake School > http://www.sls.bc.ca > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > -- > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba > ______________ www.eeigm.inpl-nancy.fr ______________ EEIGM - 6 rue Bastien LEPAGE - 54000 NANCY - FRANCE Phone +33.383.36.83.27 Fax +33.383.36.83.36 _____________________________________________________ ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba