[Bug 73452] Re: Uploading files to remote Windows server - Modified timestamps

[Jan Lillelund]

I am seeing the same on a Ubuntu 9.04 on CIFS mounts using the latest
"smbfs" package.  Using Microsofts robocopy /MIR as well as ms' file
manager preserves timestamps on the server, while rsync and Nautilus
doesn't from an Ubuntu 9.04.

Issuing an rsync -a command (trying to maintain file attributes) fails
miserably with an error:

rsync: failed to set times on "/mnt/smb100disk2/backup/CR-LD100/.88RC6907010.pdf.p1pkDD": Operation not permitted (1)
...
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1058) [sender=3.0.5]

Is there a solution yet for this problem? Losing file attributes
including time information on CIFS shares limits Ubuntu's usability in a
professional environment tremendously.  We have several TB of data
stored on Linux-based CIFS servers and are attempting to move from MS to
Ubuntu on a number of clients, but this is so far a showstopper.

Does anybody know of another tool (other than rsync) that supports CIFS
correctly on the Ubuntu client?

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Uploading files to remote Windows server - Modified timestamps
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/73452
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