Bug 254354 - net/rsync --crtimes, -N: preserve creation/birth time is not supported
Summary: net/rsync --crtimes, -N: preserve creation/birth time is not supported
Status: New
Alias: None
Product: Ports & Packages
Classification: Unclassified
Component: Individual Port(s) (show other bugs)
Version: Latest
Hardware: Any Any
: --- Affects Only Me
Assignee: Rodrigo Osorio
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Depends on: 254823
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Reported: 2021-03-16 21:15 UTC by Fab
Modified: 2021-04-09 02:20 UTC (History)
4 users (show)

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Description Fab 2021-03-16 21:15:12 UTC
Here you can see that FreeBSD generally supports crtime/btime see the stat command.


stat -f "Access (atime): %Sa%nModify (mtime): %Sm%nChange (ctime): %Sc%nBirth  (crtime/btime): %SB" /video.mkv

Access (atime): Nov 22 16:07:46 2018 
Modify (mtime): Nov 22 16:07:46 2018
Change (ctime): Nov 22 16:07:46 2018
Birth  (crtime/btime): Nov 01 01:19:02 2016



If the user uses rsync (3.2.3) to preserve the crtimes with --crtimes or -N  for directories and files, it does not work. It says in the terminal that it is not supported.
Comment 1 Li-Wen Hsu freebsd_committer freebsd_triage 2021-03-17 04:28:08 UTC
(In reply to Fab from comment #0)
Over to net/rsync maintainer. Although personally I think this should (or at least should also) to report to the upstream.
Comment 2 Peterr346 2021-03-27 01:14:15 UTC
(In reply to Li-Wen Hsu from comment #1)
I see that a user in rsync github has created its a report but the rsync developer is not responding back.
https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/issues/166

I can also reproduce this problem on my FreeBSD 13.0 here and the error message is:
rsync: This rsync does not support --crtimes (-N)
rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1767) [client=3.2.3]
Comment 3 akww244 2021-04-06 17:31:50 UTC
rsync developer said:

https://github.com/WayneD/rsync/issues/166#issuecomment-812968810

"BSD doesn't have support for setting the birth value to an arbitrary value on an existing file, so it's not supported in rsync."



Here the report for FreeBSD.
https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=254823