Ron Schnatzmeyer

First, thanks for taking the time and effort to help resolve this issue. Here are some thoughts after working through this. There is a third type of recovery. That type is: Recovery of a specific version of a entire subdirectory. This is not a full recovery nor just a single file. When I need to restore something, this is often the one I need. From the Logical View tab you can only select the most recent backup of a directory, not a version on an older archive. Right click the directory > Recover...

OK, based on information from what you said above, I did some more digging and testing and I think there is really only one problem which is how it applies the metadata. Looking at these dates from the linux stat command: File: some-old-test-file.txt Size: 38903 Blocks: 80 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 259,1 Inode: 36996580 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ ron) Gid: ( 1000/ ron) Access: 2025-07-08 03:35:53.878485019 -0500 Modify: 2025-01-21 12:51:50.843453962 -0600 Change: 2025-01-21...

OK, based on information from what you said above, I did some more digging and testing and I think there is really only one problem which is how it applies the metadata. Looking at these dates from the linux stat command: ~~~ File: some-old-test-file.txt Size: 38903 Blocks: 80 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 259,1 Inode: 36996580 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ ron) Gid: ( 1000/ ron) Access: 2025-07-08 03:35:53.878485019 -0500 Modify: 2025-01-21 12:51:50.843453962 -0600 Change:...

Hello, Thank you for the reply. Here is some testing I have done. I selected a single file with which to work and is old enough that do not really need it. The file as created looks like this, the Access date is updated by the backup. stat QData-2025-06-12* File: QData-2025-06-12.AM09.03.QDF-backup Size: 80465920 Blocks: 157168 IO Block: 4096 regular file Device: 259,1 Inode: 37266049 Links: 1 Access: (0664/-rw-rw-r--) Uid: ( 1000/ ron) Gid: ( 1000/ ron) Access: 2025-07-08 03:10:15.527034144 -0500...

Linux file date not preserved