hello,
initially driven by some special need and then because starting to have
fun with fiddling around fixing compile issues , i managed to create
static builds of every rsync version available since 1.6.5 (dating back
to 1997).
i did not yet test if all builds are really functional, but i can tell
that i can locally create a copy of some dir with rsync 1.6.5 :)
would someone find this useful to share binaries & docs ?
it could probably be valuable for testing/debugging purpose or special
use case (like mine) or just for "information technology nostalgia"
(studying how opensource tool evolved or whatever).
regarding docs, i'm currently waiting for lib issue to be fixed in
alpine:edge (using docker container for build env)
regards
Roland
ps:
yes, i'm aware that using static versions have security implications, so
for sure i would write a big warning wherever i share that docs or builds...
root@s740:~/rsync-static# ./rsync-3.4.1-static -V
rsync version 3.4.1 protocol version 32
Copyright (C) 1996-2025 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: https://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
64-bit files, 64-bit inums, 64-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
socketpairs, symlinks, symtimes, hardlinks, hardlink-specials,
hardlink-symlinks, IPv6, atimes, batchfiles, inplace, append, ACLs,
xattrs, optional secluded-args, iconv, prealloc, stop-at, no crtimes
Optimizations:
no SIMD-roll, no asm-roll, openssl-crypto, no asm-MD5
Checksum list:
xxh128 xxh3 xxh64 (xxhash) md5 md4 sha1 none
Compress list:
zstd lz4 zlibx zlib none
Daemon auth list:
sha512 sha256 sha1 md5 md4
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
# ./rsync-1.6.5-static -v
rsync version 1.6.5 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras
Usage: rsync [options] src user@host:dest
OR rsync [options] user@host:src dest
Options:
-v, --verbose increase verbosity
-c, --checksum always checksum
-a, --archive archive mode (same as -rlptDog)
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-R, --relative use relative path names
-b, --backup make backups (default ~ extension)
-u, --update update only (don't overwrite newer files)
-l, --links preserve soft links
-H, --hard-links preserve hard links
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
-g, --group preserve group
-D, --devices preserve devices (root only)
-t, --times preserve times
-S, --sparse handle sparse files efficiently
-n, --dry-run show what would have been transferred
-x, --one-file-system don't cross filesystem boundaries
-B, --block-size SIZE checksum blocking size
-e, --rsh COMMAND specify rsh replacement
--rsync-path PATH specify path to rsync on the remote machine
-C, --cvs-exclude auto ignore files in the same way CVS does
--delete delete files that don't exist on the sending side
-I, --ignore-times don't exclude files that match length and time
-z, --compress compress file data
--exclude FILE exclude file FILE
--exclude-from FILE exclude files listed in FILE
--suffix SUFFIX override backup suffix
--version print version number
the backup suffix defaults to ~
the block size defaults to 700
root@s740:~/rsync-static# ./rsync-1.6.5-static --version
rsync version 1.6.5 protocol version 14
root@s740:~/rsync-static# ls -ltr
total 36574
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189320 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.6.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189320 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.6.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189384 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.6.7-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 189384 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.6.8-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 205832 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.6.9-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209992 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.7.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209992 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.7.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209992 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.7.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209992 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.7.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 209992 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-1.7.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289272 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293496 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.10-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309016 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.11-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309016 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.12-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309080 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.13-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309080 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.14-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309080 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.15-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309112 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.16-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309112 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.17-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 309112 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.18-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 313304 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.19-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289368 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289368 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 289368 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293464 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293496 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293496 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293496 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.7-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293496 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.8-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 293496 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.0.9-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 317400 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.1.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 317464 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.1.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 321816 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.2.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 326136 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.2.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 334552 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.3.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 334552 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.3.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 334648 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.3.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 334648 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.3.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 338840 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 338840 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 342968 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 342968 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 343032 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 343096 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 343128 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 343128 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.4.8-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 533528 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 537688 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541848 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541912 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541912 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 541912 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 550168 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 550168 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.5.7-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 562712 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 571256 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 571256 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 575672 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 626328 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 630456 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 650456 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 681592 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.7-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 681624 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.8-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 686168 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-2.6.9-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 791288 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 800184 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 800184 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 800184 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 804280 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 804280 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 804312 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 808408 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.7-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 808440 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.8-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 808440 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.0.9-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 863640 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.1.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 867832 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.1.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 867832 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.1.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 876248 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.1.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1528312 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1528408 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.1-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1544920 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.2-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1553624 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.3-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1558040 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.4-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1566296 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.5-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1566264 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.6-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6328608 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.2.7-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6328608 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.3.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6332704 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.4.0-static
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6332704 Mar 7 13:29 rsync-3.4.1-static
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