[tpm] Q: Which modules to use for mirroring a Windows tree, robustly and securely

[Shlomi Fish]

On Tuesday 05 October 2010 18:04:08 J Z Tam wrote:
> Just need to make sure that one Windows Server subDirectory tree is exactly
> the same as another server's subDirectory with the same hierarchy and
> names. I'm thinking perhaps this is easier to automate in cygwin, and
> forget about perl... but open to feedback. I can relax permissions and
> ACL's during the mirroring process, and re-apply afterwards. Thoughts?
> /jordan

When on Unix, I normally use rsync for that: http://rsync.samba.org/ . It runs 
fine on cygwin. Caveat: I never tried to use rsync between two Windows hosts 
while attempting to preserve permissions and ACLs , which I'm hazy about their 
semantics in MSWin, but on Unix systems, rsync has an option to preserve 
permissions and user/group ownerships of files.

Regards,

	Shlomi Fish

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