[gpfsug-discuss] Creation time

[Ahmed Essam Mahrous Gaber Elmazaty]

In addition to rsync, we have migrated to GPFS using AFM and it preserves all the metadata including modification timestamps
Best regards,
Ahmed

> On 1 Oct 2026, at 14:18, Michael Neumayer via gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org> wrote:
> 
> If you can use rsync (Linux) or robocopy (Windows) for the sync, preserving dates can be configured via the available options of these and similar tools. You may as well have a look at rclone (https://rclone.org/). I haven't used it a lot so far, but a colleague of mine did some large migrations with it, and was quite happy about it.
> 
> I've never tried, but if you still have the external file system available, you could probably use the mentioned tools just to update dates to their value on the source file system without transferring them again, in case you've already finished the sync.
> 
> Best,
> Michael
> 
> ________________________________________________________________________ 
> 
> Michael Neumayer  
> CUBE - Division of Computational Systems Biology	
> Centre f. Microbiology and Environmental Systems Science    	
> University of Vienna						
> Djerassiplatz 1
> 1030 Vienna, Austria					
> https://cube.univie.ac.at/
> 
> Life Science Compute Cluster
> https://lisc.univie.ac.at/
> 
> 
> 
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: gpfsug-discuss <gpfsug-discuss-bounces at gpfsug.org> Im Auftrag von Jonathan Buzzard via gpfsug-discuss
> Gesendet: Donnerstag, 1. Oktober 2026 15:03
> An: gpfsug-discuss at spectrumscale.org
> Cc: Jonathan Buzzard <jonathan.buzzard at strath.ac.uk>
> Betreff: [gpfsug-discuss] Creation time
> 
> 
> Is it possible to change the creation time on a file in GPFS? I have a gut feeling the answer is no and I can't see a mechanism to do so but thought I might as well ask.
> 
> The use case would be syncing in data from an external file system and preserving all those creation times, that stretch back many years rather than have them all batted down to the date of the sync.
> 
> JAB.
> 
> -- 
> Jonathan A. Buzzard                         Tel: +44141-5483420
> HPC System Administrator, ARCHIE-WeSt.
> University of Strathclyde, John Anderson Building, Glasgow. G4 0NG
> 
> 
> _______________________________________________
> gpfsug-discuss mailing list
> gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
> http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org
> _______________________________________________
> gpfsug-discuss mailing list
> gpfsug-discuss at gpfsug.org
> http://gpfsug.org/mailman/listinfo/gpfsug-discuss_gpfsug.org