Hi Jaime,

IBM developed a patch for rsync that can replicate ACL’s … we’ve used it and it 
works great … can’t remember where we downloaded it from, though.  Maybe 
someone else on the list who *isn’t* having a senior moment can point you to it…

Kevin

> On Jan 5, 2017, at 3:53 PM, Jaime Pinto <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> Does anyone know of a functional standard alone tool to systematically and 
> recursively find and replicate ACLs that works well with GPFS?
> 
> * We're currently using rsync, which will replicate permissions fine, however 
> it leaves the ACL's behind. The --perms option for rsync is blind to ACLs.
> 
> * The native linux trick below works well with ext4 after an rsync, but makes 
> a mess on GPFS.
>     % getfacl -R /path/to/source > /root/perms.ac
>     % setfacl --restore=/root/perms.acl
> 
> * The native GPFS mmgetacl/mmputacl pair does not have a built-in recursive 
> option.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> Thanks
> Jaime
> 
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