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I've had great success using Unison ( <A HREF="http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/">http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/</A> ). It's a package that uses incremental backups similar to rsync, but can run natively under Windows and Linux, and the two can work with each other. Unison is no longer under active development, though, but I haven't come across any major problems with it in the last year or so that I've been using it to back up my clients' servers.<BR>
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On Tue, 2010-10-05 at 18:49 +0200, Shlomi Fish wrote:
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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: <A HREF="http://rsync.samba.org/">http://rsync.samba.org/</A> . 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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