[Samba] Large-scale ACL copying?

[Andrew Furey]

Hi all,

Well, I'm getting somewhere I think, I now have both ACL support and domain login basically working. However I'm at a bit of a loss as to how to proceed.

Basically I want to copy over a large number of files and directories (~300k files, ~60Gb total) from an existing W2k server to a Samba server. These files have existing ACLs set, so I need to preserve them somehow.

I can of course copy over the files themselves using any number of methods "from" either machine, but the majority of them don't have any knowledge of ACLs at all. I've been trying to use xcopy /o, but it gives "Access Denied" and a file size of 0. (The "force unknown acl user" option is supposed to fix this, but it seems to be ignored according to testparm -x - or am I doing something wrong?)

I could try copying them over and then seting the ACLs either through the Security dialog or with setfacl, but given that they're not all predictable (any random subfile could have rather different ACLs to its parent dir), and also given the sheer number involved, it would take, um, a while :(

This is Samba 2.2.7a on Debian unstable (can be reverted to stable if need be), and a fairly standard W2k server on domain-level security.

Any ideas for an [easier] way to do this?

TIA
Andrew

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