how to backup/restore of windows file attributes

Ryan Malayter malayter at gmail.com
Sun Jan 4 04:48:50 GMT 2009


On Tue, Dec 30, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Tevfik Karagülle <tevfik at itefix.no> wrote:
> You may be interested  in the cwRsync FAQ http://www.itefix.no/i2/node/11313
> about using RoboCopy for transferring windows file attributes/permissions:
>

I have recently started using ICACLS.EXE to dump permissions to a file
on the source and re-apply on the destination via script after rsync
is done.

ICACLS is the only tool that handles some NTFS ACL features correctly
(older tools such as XCACLS do not).
See http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2007.07.securitywatch.aspx

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RPM


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