[Box Backup-dev] Windows branch

[Chris Wilson]

Hi Charles,

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006, Charles Lecklider wrote:

>> Restored Files Attributes Incorrect
>>
>> Pete Jalajas reports that the date stamps of restored files are the
>> current time, not the datestamp of the original file (or of the time
>> when the file was backed up). Nor are Access Control Lists or Windows
>> file attributes restored.
>>
>> * It seems that there's no API to set the date stamps on files until
>> Windows Vista. Since I don't have a copy of Vista, I can't test this.
>
> Is that still the current position?

It was, until now :-)

> I'm just wondering what's wrong with SetFileAttributes
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/fileio/fs/setfileattributes.asp)
> and SetFileTime
> (http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/sysinfo/base/setfiletime.asp).
>
> Am I missing something obvious or subtle?

No, I think you are absolutely right. I overlooked these API functions. I 
think I was looking at SetFileInformationByHandle.

This should allow me to fix the restoring part of the bbackupd unit tests 
on Windows. Thanks!

Cheers, Chris.
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