Handling Files With Future Timestamp During Migration

When a non-Windows server is mounted on a Windows server, certain files or folders might have future dates assigned to their timestamps. This can occasionally cause the Migration App to encounter anomalies during synchronization or copying processes, resulting in the error message "files are skipped due to future timestamp". The issue commonly arises during system-to-system file transfers when Windows fails to adjust the timestamps correctly. This feature is designed to handle and resolve such issues.

Feature Description

Egnyte allows its users to decide how future timestamps will behave during migration. The users can either exclude files with future timestamps or modify the timestamps on the source files to the present.

By default, data with a future timestamp is skipped from the migration process. The user can choose to change this behavior before they start migrating the data.

Options To Specify The Behavior Of Future Timestamps

The user can specify the behavior of future timestamps after the scan completes. They can select their choice in:

1. Data migration options before starting copy or sync.
   
2. While scheduling the migration job.
   

The user has two choices for selecting the behavior of future timestamps.

• Exclusion of data with future timestamp (skipped): If the user selects No in the Data migration options pop-up, the data with future timestamps will be skipped from the migration process. 
• Adjustment of future timestamp data to current time directly on the source files: If the user selects Yes in Data migration options pop-up, the source data will be modified to the present time.

 

True-up Options And Future Timestamps

The user's choice of default behaviour for future timestamps will be displayed during true-up and it cannot be changed.