Preserving time and date stamps

My Cloud OS 3 Personal & Network Attached Storage My Cloud Mirror
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My apologies if this has been addressed somewhere, but I am trying to transfer over files from my older Ubuntu backup server and I can’t seem to find a way to preserve the time and date stamps.

I have tried copying using the GUI, using both cp and rsync on the command line, and mounting the My Cloud drive via AFP and by NFS. No matter what I do, it seems that the time stamps for the copied files are modified to the current date.

Please tell me there’s a way to allow me to keep the original dates on these files!

I also tried using Grsync, a GUI front end for rsync, and it gives an error message in the log that it is unable to set the timestamp on the remote system.

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See if this link helps you. It actually references a linux machine.

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I actually discovered through trial and error that if I mount the Mirror as a Windows Network Samba share on the Linux machine that it retains the time and date stamps.

Getting pretty good speed as well, around 50 to 60 MB/sec across several concurrent transfers. I’ll take it!