Question for rsync users on linux. Does your rsync preserve creation times --crtimes ?
I'm aware ext4/3 filesystems don't store creation times. But I want to use rsync on Linux to sync files between an NTFS(supports creation times) and a Btrfs partition(also supports creation times) without losing the creation times.
Currently rsync just sets the creation time to the modification time on the destination directory. Which is not what I want.
When I use `--crtimes` I get a "This rsync does not support --crtimes (-N)" error.
Weirdly, just using `cp -a` works. But it doesn' t have any of the checksumming and differential copy bells and whistles of rsync.
How do you rsync on linux while preserving creation times(on supported file systems)?
I'm aware ext4/3 filesystems don't store creation times. But I want to use rsync on Linux to sync files between an NTFS(supports creation times) and a Btrfs partition(also supports creation times) without losing the creation times.
Currently rsync just sets the creation time to the modification time on the destination directory. Which is not what I want.
When I use `--crtimes` I get a "This rsync does not support --crtimes (-N)" error.
Weirdly, just using `cp -a` works. But it doesn' t have any of the checksumming and differential copy bells and whistles of rsync.
How do you rsync on linux while preserving creation times(on supported file systems)?