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

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 08:15:03PM -0500, William Muriithi wrote:
> 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.

Hmm, not sure if the ntfs driver has posix acl support.  It would make
a lot of sense if it did, but that doesn't mean it does.  I really don't
deal with NTFS ever.

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Len Sorensen
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