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From: new@udel.EDU (Darren New)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Hard-disk backup programs.
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Date: 24 Aug 89 19:54:42 GMT
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In article <1636@abaa.UUCP> esker@abaa.UUCP (Lawrence Esker) writes:
>>The only enhancement that I can think of that could be done is to make
>>restore replace directories with the original date/time stamp.
>>Currently, only file date/time stamps are recreated.
>
>The AmigaDOS changes the date/time on directories whenever anything is
>changed within it.  Even if the backup program did what was requested, when
>it started to fill the directory with files, AmigaDOS would go an change the
>date to today.

Of course, the obvious solution is to create the directory, put the files
into it, and THEN set the date on the directory to what it should be.
I suspect that if there is a combination of protection bits that prevent you
from adding files to a directory, a directory backed up with those bits
set may not restore properly.  One should really think about these things
when doing a backup program!    -- Darren