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

[William Muriithi]

On 15 March 2010 14:10, Rafael Carneiro <rafael.carneiro-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> Shouldn't robocopy /COPYALL (or /COPY:DATSOU) do that?
>
> /COPY:copyflag[s] :: what to COPY (default is /COPY:DAT).
>                      (copyflags : D=Data, A=Attributes, T=Timestamps).
>                      (S=Security=NTFS ACLs, O=Owner info, U=aUditing info).
>
>
Hmm, actually that is the flag that I used. Like this

robocopy "H:\\Directory" "D:\\Directory2\Directory3" /COPYALL /E /R:0

Thought copy all would do it. Not sure what went wrong till now.
However, Andrej I like your suggestion, how do you get the summery of
a tree's permissions so that I compare the old and the new stuff. Its
far better than manually opening every directory and checking the
properties for permission.

Lennart, I actually toyed with the idea of using live CD and then use
rsync, and certain it would keep the posix permissions very reliably.
Question is, does this apply to NTFS permission too? Google could not
find me an answer for that from reliable source, so I let the idea go.


William
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 1:17 PM, Lennart Sorensen
> <lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
>>
>> 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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