rsync; how to preserve Windows permissions - luv-main

3 Mar 2017

Hi There,

Thank you very much for all your comments and help with “rsync with
multiple threads”. It was very helpful. I have found out that in my case,
rsync with multiple threads did speed up a bit of file transfer process.
This is the command I was using (run it with while loop, and define TARGET
and THREADS in the script):

find dir-name -maxdepth 1 -mindepth 1  -type d -print0 | xargs -n1 -0
-P$THREADS -I% rsync -a %/ $TARGET/%

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.

Thanks and Cheers,
Bill