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[Beau71]

Say you migrate files from a server onto new hard drives. Is there a switch in xcopy or maybe an add on program from microsoft, etc., that will copy the specific file properties: date created, modified, accessed?

When we migrated files here, the files actually lose the date they were created. For example. A file was created on the server in 2002. We migrated it in 2004 to new hard drives. The File properties show a created date of time it was moved (2004), but a modified date of the date it was last modified (2002).

I know if you perform a move that the file properties stay intact, but I would like to use a copy. Thank you.

 

[58sniper]

Have a look at robocopy from the Resource Kit.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
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http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt

 

[Beau71]

ROBOCOPY worked perfect with the /COPYALL

you da man!

 

[58sniper]

Thanks. Microsoft has recently released a GUI for robocopy, too. It's an awesome resource for migrations, mirroring, etc.

Pat Richard, MCSE MCSA:Messaging CNA
Microsoft Exchange MVP
Want to know how email works? Read for yourself -

http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2821.txt