Preserving Timestamps

[Diesel]

Very technical issue here...

I have several dozen AVI files on a Win2k system that need to be backed up in usuable condition on either another Win2k box, or onto CD-R/RW using Nero. The caveat is that they must preserve the timestamps that are present on the originals, specifically the Created stamp.

When I've tried copying them over the network onto another box, the timestamps reflected when they were created on the new machine at the time of the copy.

Any ideas?


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[nootch]

Have you tried WinZip yet? I just took a few files, with created/modified dates in 2000, and zipped them up using WinZip 8.0. I then copied the zip file to another drive and extracted them... they all retained the original dates.

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[monsieurjohn]

dangit nootch stole my idea. that'll work, though.

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[Diesel]

Actually, I ended up going the direct route.
Nero has the option to preserve the timestamps. Just went right over the network directly onto CD-RW. Did exactly what I needed.

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