What would it take to get Cygwin and NTFS file permissions to play nice?

2016-08-12 Thread Thomas Taylor
I use rsync to back up my Cygwin user directories to an external USB disk drive, formatted as NTFS. This fails from time to time, usually due to permission failures when trying to update the destination files. The Windows permissions of the destination files turn out to be in the wrong order,

Re: What would it take to get Cygwin and NTFS file permissions to play nice?

2016-08-12 Thread Eliot Moss
On 8/12/2016 10:26 PM, Thomas Taylor wrote: I use rsync to back up my Cygwin user directories to an external USB disk drive, formatted as NTFS. This fails from time to time, usually due to permission failures when trying to update the destination files. The Windows permissions of the destinatio