OT: Copy NTFS based files between servers AND retaining permission intact

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 03:19:48PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> This is a tad window centric, so may not be entirely appropriate for
> the LUG and hence the OT label. That being said, I believe some of us
> might be dealing with Windows once in a while and hence the post.
> 
> We are in the middle of migrating between to file servers and we used
> robocopy.exe to move files to the new file server. I did a sample
> check on some of the files and the permissions seemed to have carried
> over well. However, when I sent out to selected users, some were
> actually able to read documents that were originally unavailable. This
> kind of mean manually going through all directories, something I would
> rather avoid.
> 
> Anyone know of a tool that can do this job better or have gone through
> the experience before and would not mind sharing their experience?
> 
> Would appreciate any pointers and thanks in advance

rsync?  unison?

Should be lots of options.

At least on linux rsync has an ACL flag (-A) which does the full posix
ACL permissions.

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