On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 02:48:56PM +1100, Bill Yang wrote:
I now have another issue. Some of the
files/directories I transferred
from source storage server (Red Hat) are Windows files/directories
(Those Windows files were backed up using a backup software). rsync
didn’t preserve Windows permissions/ACLs when those files were
transferred onto the target storage server (FreeBSD). Is there any
way to instruct rsync to preserve Windows permissions/ACLs? Any
suggestions would be appreciated.
I have no idea if this will work for windows ACLs or not (or from linux
to freebsd filesystems), but did you try rsync's -A (aka --acls) option?
Note that ACL support is very much dependant on filesystem capabilities, and
different filesystems may have completely different and incompatible ACL support.
AFAICT, you have at least two problems:
1. your windows backup software backs up ACLs in some undefined way. You need
to research how and what it is doing.
Can your windows backup software store the ACLs in a separate file and
restore the correct permissions from that?
2. you are rsyncing from a linux filesystem to freebsd. it may not even
be possible to get this to work, especially considering that the Windows
ACLs are, at best, a translation from real windows ACLs to the best fit
on a linux filesystem, and then (with luck) translated again by the rsync
transfer to the best match on a freebsd filesystem.
craig
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craig sanders <cas(a)taz.net.au>