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What options of Rsync can I reliably use/ how/ combine to either:

  • RELIABLY TRANSFER "working" even if "limited set" of Permissions/ ACLs reliably & without conflict between the Gray area of Cygwin Windows/ NTFS & *Nix / Perms etc
    OR

  • Flush clean / have RSync totally avoid Permissions / ACL issues if I cant do the above?

I've read close to 50 tabs and windows on what to do around this from the last decade or so.

At how to deal with it seems to change based on where & who you are asking and what version of Rsync (time & variation/ alternative code base) is being talked about.

  • Rsync variations under Windows
    • (Several *Nix & Windows: Cygwin variations, CwRsync, Delta Copy/ Syncrify/ Synaman, GRsync, RsyncBackup, Rsync.exe pkg, Rclone, AcroSync, YInterSync)

Options to choose:

The answer on how to execute RSync for this specific scenario I've got from this QnA;

But after gathering all the "knowledge" on RSync around Cygwin, NTFS, Permissions & ACLs etc, I am not sure what variation does what to make a decision on how to proceed.

It turns out that to keep your Windows permissions in check, a simple chmod flag is required.
—chmod=ugo=rwX

Rsync Options (some..)

 -p, --perms preserve permissions -E, --executability preserve the file's executability --chmod=CHMOD affect file and/or directory permissions -A, --acls preserve ACLs (implies --perms) -o, --owner preserve owner (super-user only) -g, --group preserve group --devices preserve device files (super-user only) --specials preserve special files -D same as --devices --specials

/etc/fstab (addition of noacl)

 # /etc/fstab # # This file is read once by the first process in a Cygwin process tree. # To pick up changes, restart all Cygwin processes. For a description # see https://cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table # This is default anyway: # none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user 0 0 none /cygdrive cygdrive binary,posix=0,user,noacl 0 0
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  • @roaima - Not asking for documentation but clarity between various options / permissions/ ACLs one can choose here. Let me rephrase and add Commented Oct 17, 2019 at 11:54
  • @roaima - Updated: Basically best case variation of TRANSFER or NONE? How? Commented Oct 17, 2019 at 12:01
  • Not planning to transfer to Unix, But that "translation" between Win & *Unix is an issue, as Rsync reads from Win & Rewrites to Win in the above operation. So during "translation" how much can it CARRY across in a Kosher fashion? Commented Oct 17, 2019 at 12:04
  • There is no problem with translating between UNIX and MS-WIN, since all modern UNIX systems use ACLs based on the NTFS concept. Just avoid Linux... Commented Nov 5, 2019 at 16:51
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    Linux is not a modern OS with respect to ACL support :-( there is a ACE (NTFS ACLs) implementation for Linux but this is not supported by distros and it uses an unusual own local library interface definition that makes it hard to port software that already works on other platforms (like star does). All modern OS (Apple, AIX, FreeBSD, Solaris) implement ACEs since this is standardized in NFSv4. In general, the GNU people are ignoring ACLscompletely. GNU tar only supports the outdated ACLs on Linux, but no ACLs on other OS. SAMBA tries a bad translate, Oracle has a SAMBA patch for native ACEs Commented Nov 6, 2019 at 11:44

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I've been looking at this over the last several days, and after reading lots of references and actually trying out various combinations of flags, I don't think that rsync will carry Windows ACLs.

rsync -aX src/ dst/ rsync: extended attributes are not supported on this client

I found this recommendation to remount the Cygwin view of the local NTFS drives with noacl, but I couldn't get that to work usefully for me. Another suggestion to use --chmod=ugo=rwX didn't help at all.

It seems that for this particular use case you'll need to use something like ROBOCOPY /SEC instead of rsync.

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That had bothered me a while too. I'm looking for brave souls to take my rsync-ntacls patch for a spin.

This patch enables rsync on windows to transfer NTFS security attributes while offering rsync's delta transfers. Local transfers or remote via ssh. No more RoboCopy fix-up jobs ;)

Cheers! https://github.com/PreussLabsLLC/rsync-ntacls

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