Thanks. I asked this a few weeks back and didn't get much response. The half-hearted consensus was that rsync wouldn't do the job.
[It seemed to me it should, as long as you're replicating between two DC members, and not to a non DC member. (Because, as I figured it, a non DC member wouldn't have any idea about the users/groups, since it's not replicating and of the DC data, right?)] Glad for any light you can shed - and thanks for letting me know it should work. I'll tinker with it when I'm to that point. -Greg JA> On Thu, Feb 28, 2013 at 09:13:39PM -0800, Gregory Sloop wrote: >> >> I'm in the same boat, and I'm only aware of two possibilities. >> >> 1) Robocopy - using a Windows client. >> BUT Robocopy doesn't do file deltas - changed files are copied in >> their entirety. Which isn't a problem if you don't have large >> files. But if you've got a 10G file that changes often, then this >> probably isn't the best alternative. >> >> 2) http://www.bvckup.com/support/ [Bvckup] >> This also appears to be a Windows utility, but does handle file >> delta's. I have never used this tool and so can't vouch for it in any >> way. >> >> If you find a functional solution, that preferably can be used on the >> two Linux/Samba boxes to do file-deltas and still maintain the >> permissions - that would be best. >> >> One other option that might work: >> Rsync the data, and use robocopy to simply duplicate the permissions >> structure. [I believe this is possible.] JA> rsync using -A (preserve ACLs) and -X (preserve extended attributes) JA> and -o (preserve owner (super-user only)) and -g (preserve group) JA> should copy thing perfectly. -- Gregory Sloop, Principal: Sloop Network & Computer Consulting Voice: 503.251.0452 x82 EMail: gr...@sloop.net http://www.sloop.net --- -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/options/samba