Christian Iversen schrieb: > Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >> Is it possible at all? >> >> Mount two NTFS filesystems, copy data from one to another, leaving >> ACLs, permissions 100% intact? > > I don't know about that, but from what I've read recently here, it seems > to be possible with the newest ntfs-3g. > > However, have you considered this simpler solution? > > - Fill unused space on partition up with 0's. > - Stop virtual machine > - Transfer image using something similar to: > > ssh u...@targetmachine 'cat /data/image | gzip' | gunzip > image > > That way, you would even gain the compression advantage on existing > files, and you can be certain the data and metadata is unchanged.
This has a disadvantage: no way of tracking changes. I.e. change one file, or just boot the Windows system and you have to transfer the *whole* image again. One way to get around this is to use DRBD over a compressed (VPN) link - it will take care of the copying, synchronizing changes etc. But still, I would like to be able to just rsync one NTFS filesystem to another without loosing the attributes. As I understand, this is problematic not only on Linux, but also on Windows. -- Tomasz Chmielewski http://wpkg.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ ntfs-3g-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ntfs-3g-devel
