[NTLUG:Discuss] original file creation date?

[Eric Schnoebelen]

LEROY TENNISON writes:
- Before dismissing original creation date look at the available
- backup programs to see what they can do in regard to restoring this
- kind of information. If issue being faced here is that the OS can
- only do so much. If the program copying the data doesn't transfer
- that information there's not much that the OS can do, I doubt that
- this is unique to Linux.

On Unix, there is no way to change the ctime (inode
create/change time).  Look at the manual pages for utimes(2) and
utime(3).

- --- On Fri, 8/29/08, Stan Gatchel <sgatchel at psltech.com> wrote:
- Thanks for the info. This means the original one-and-only creation
- date is not retrained... just the first time it was to the current
- disk (that's what Linux thinks is the "creation" date). Technically
- correct, but with backups, this means the real creation date is
- lost. Too bad really.

Why is the "original creation date" interesting to you?

For the uses I can think of, (backups, archives, housekeeping) the
modification and access times are sufficent.

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