2012/5/21 Corinna Vinschen: > On May 21 17:46, AZ 9901 wrote: >> Hello, >> >> >> >> I have some Windows machines backed-up using Rsync on a Linux target server. >> Everything runs fine, expect ACLs restoration, does not really seem to >> work as expected. > > If you're trying to reproduce the exact permissions as Windows sees > them, you're out of luck with Cygwin. The ACL handling in Cygwin is > using the Solaris view on ACLs, which is basically the same as the POSIX > view, just using a different API. The Solaris/POSIX APIs handle only > three permission bits corresponding to the POSIX "rwx". These are > mapped as useful as possible to Windows permission bits. If you want > exact Windows ACLs, use native Windows tools. > > > Corinna > Hello Corinna,
Thank you very much for your answer ! That makes sense :-) Regarding a native backup / restore tool for ACLs, would you have any advice ? Thank you very much, Best regards, Ben -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
