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Originally Posted by Annihilannic
If the destination file is equal in size and date, then surely its contents will be identical, and there won't be any need to copy it?
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Not so. Now for the long story.
Ok a really short version of the long story.
We have a San Server with 43TB of user data. We backed said san server using some software to a backup san drive. We wiped the orginal san drive. Used the same software to restore the backup san drive contents to the live san drive.
Months later after users had been using the directoires on the san server, they start complaining of random files being corrupt when they open them. After manualy draging and droping the old backup file form the backup san over the (same exact date and size) file in the live san, the file works for them.
The files are random that are corrupt so we need to copy all the files that exist in the backup drive into the live drive overwriting the files if they exist but ONLY if the file date is equal of older than what is there as users have been updating files and adding to the directories.
whew. and that was the short version.
