Re: Using rsync to sync to NTFS: permission issues

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Warren Young wrote: If you don't compress the tar file, there's a nonzero chance that rsync can still save some I/O when synchronizing after the first copy. There's a quite high chance that it would transfer only the modified bytes with some

Using rsync to sync to NTFS: permission issues

Hi, I (want to) use rsync under cygwin to sync files from a Linux box to a WinXP box. I want to maintain a full backup, including the file permissions. First, this is how far I got: - the XP box uses an NTFS partition to write the back-up on. - rsync runs on the XP box (as it is by far the

Re: Using rsync to sync to NTFS: permission issues

Wim Heemskerk Lists wrote: I (want to) use rsync under cygwin to sync files from a Linux box to a WinXP box. I want to maintain a full backup, including the file permissions. Without something like NIS or LDAP to synchronize the user and group databases between the machines, I think you will