Can file modification dates only be transferred from source to dest?

[Little Girl]

Hey there,

Oliver Grawert wrote:

>while this is rather a clueless guess, i'd take a look at running
>rsync against the existing target files, with luck it identifies
>that the payload data is already there and just does an update of
>the metadata ...

That should work fine and this page shows how it might be done and
also contains comments and alternative solutions that can be used:

https://serverfault.com/questions/344731/rsync-copying-over-timestamps-only

Either way, I'd run a test on a small, complex example directory
first before turning it loose on all the files.

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