site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com On Jun 26, 2006, at 5:09 PM, Dan Shoop wrote: I can see reasons for both ways. cp, tar, and friends would "create" a copy (a different creation date) - boyd Boyd Waters National Radio Astronomy Observatory Socorro, New Mexico _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... If you create a backup file, that backup file will have its own creation date. Well, that's wrong then. A Backup /must be/ identical to the source in every possible respect otherwise it can not be used to properly restore said file to it's original state. To preserve creation date, one would use a filesystem dump(8)/restore (8) utility. I see that Mac OS X has dump/restore from FreeBSD. I have not yet used this facility for HFS+ volumes. Does it preserve the all the attributes/metadata/whatever? Creation times? This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com