[time-nuts] Odetics 325 & 425: File recovery

[Chris Cheney]

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> everything in sync. Syncing between two local resources (main hard drive
> and USB hard drive) is not too hard, considering the transfer speed that
> can be achieved, but mirroring the web resources is a pain, partly because
> of speed and partly because of OS differences in file name rules
> (Windows/Linux). I have not found the software I wanted (only looked at
> free/cheap stuff) so I am considering writing my own (Visual Basic).

Didier,

The other OS difference is the way that they deal with file timestamps 
w.r.t. DST. What Windows does is a real PITA - see 
http://www.peterdonis.net/computers/computersarticle3.html for the 
details - right down to the footnote. 

Have fun with it - it caused me some severe headaches!

Chris
G3RSE