Ugh ... that leaves me with no other choice than use touch.
I used
wget instead, this should preserve file dates.
How do you download this dump ?
Also using
wget.
Are you downloading every update at 100kB/s ?
Yes.
If yes, we'd "only" save some time if you upload it to my end.
Using rsync would be so easy

Giving you the ability to blink my hardware's light emitting diodes might be pointless.
It should be going wild now.
If the "input outputs transaction" dump is something like a csv file, just compiling the "missing" data with Bitcoin Core and append it to the dump could do the trick.
Until I can get the full data from my own Bitcoin Core installation, I'll keep using the data dumps. And even if I can get the data from Bitcoin Core, it would further increase the VPS requirements.
The people who showed me the path to emacs warned me about vi users.
What's emacs?

I kid you not

Is that true that if you tell average user to leave vi
It can't be: the average user doesn't use vi.