Hi Jon,
> 
> On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 08:42:53AM +0200, Markus Dohmann wrote:
> > Hello amada-users lists,
> > 
> > we are using Amanda 2.4.4 (Solaris 8) with GNU tar (1.13.25) and a
> > tape archive (Overland LoaderXpress SDLT). Everything works fine except
> > for the setting of the recovery date of directories.
> > 
> ...
> > 
> > All owner modes were ok, but the date of the directories get the actual 
> > system time. Files in this directories have the correct time.
> > Do you have any idea or hint?
> 
> I'm pretty certain that is the normal effect of recoveries.
> I do not believe there is a workaround.
>

When I use /bin/tar from Solaris 8 (instead of GNU tar) and tar a directory 
tree and then extract this tar archive, the directories have the corret date 
and time.

> You see the same thing with "pass through" transfer of one directory
> tree to another location with cpio or tar (i.e. cpio | cpio or tar | tar
> to copy a dir tree).  The directories always have the current date/time
> even when the "preserve mod times" options are used.
> 
> I think the reason is that the directories, which are actually files,
> are not copied into the backup image, just noted.  Then they are
> recreated as needed during recovery.
> 

It seems so, but in the example I sent there are directories recovered with the 
original dateand time, Ithink in this case all directories without a year 
number 
only month and time:

drwxr-xr-x   7 dohmann  b311         512 Mar 28 10:02 system/



Markus