[GRLUG] clean install and date modified

Sun Sep 23 22:03:33 EDT 2012

On Sun, 2012-09-23 at 20:14 -0400, Eric Beversluis wrote: 
> Is there a way to do a clean install and then restore my home files
> without having the Date Modified on those files change to the date of
> the install? That's what happened to me the last time I did a new Linux
> install.

If you are restoring a tar archive the date modified should be restored
along with the other data.

If you are just doing a copy [cp] then you want
"--preserve=mode,ownership,timestamps" and the copied files will have
the same metadata as the source files.  By default a copy operation onlu
copies the data and generates new metadata on the target.
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