Hi @all! I want to backup Windows files to a Linux Server including the Windows ACLs.
I found this at nabble.com http://www.nabble.com/Rsync-windows-acls-td21205816.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- On Mon, 2008-12-29 at 09:54 -0700, Michael Chletsos wrote: > Has rsync integrated windows acls into it yet? No, and the main version probably never will as rsync targets primarily unix-like systems. Windows ACL support would be fair game for a maintained patch that could be included in packagings such as cwRsync. I know of three currently available options: - If you want to back up ACLs in a way that can be restored but don't need to actually apply them to the destination files, --fake-super is supposed to be able to do this (though I'm not entirely clear on how it works). - Use rsync to copy the data and another tool such as RoboCopy to copy the ACLs. See: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-October/018704.html - Ask Srinivasa Battula <sbatt...@...> for his modified version of rsync that supports Windows ACLs (based on a development snapshot of 2.6.9, unless it has been updated). -- Matt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- My question is: I first transfer the files with rsync and then using RoboCopy to transfer the ACLs. Where exactly do robocopy copy the ACLs? In a different file? Please help me understanding this. Further I want to ask if this the following is up to date? Found on http://archives.devshed.com/forums/networking-100/i-need-rsync-acl-support-for-windows-2025405.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ There are two opportunities for information loss in the ACL conversion: - PSIX ACLs support only read, write, and execute permissions. Thus, aspects of Windows ACLs that cannot be represented by a combination of read, write, and execute (often shown as "Special Permissions" in the Windows ACL editor) will be lost. - Rsync uses Unix-like UIDs and GIDs. To get Cygwin to convert Windows users and groups to and from UIDs and GIDs in a meaningful fashion, you must assign UIDs and GIDs to all the users on the system in the /etc/passwd and /etc/group files. See the Cygwin page I linked above for much more information. Additionally, if you are copying from one machine to another, rsync gives you the option to preserve users and groups by UID/GID or by Cygwin name (which may or may not match the Windows name depending on how you did /etc/passwd and /etc/group); see rsync's option. -- Matt --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks a lot for answering! Greetings, David __________________________________________________________________________ Verschicken Sie SMS direkt vom Postfach aus - in alle deutschen und viele ausländische Netze zum gleichen Preis! https://produkte.web.de/webde_sms/sms -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
