From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 30 16:27:51 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5DC016A418 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:27:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from crackmonkey.us (crackmonkey.us [70.58.166.197]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88BA913C478 for ; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:27:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fatman@crackmonkey.us) Received: from tarani-bosatsu.dreamtrack.dnsalias.com (cpc1-swin7-0-0-cust216.brhm.cable.ntl.com [::ffff:86.18.88.217]) (AUTH: PLAIN fatman, TLS: TLSv1/SSLv3,256bits,AES256-SHA) by crackmonkey.us with esmtp; Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:27:38 -0600 id 0018800B.46D6F000.00000DE7 Message-ID: <46D6EF57.6000503@crackmonkey.us> Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 17:24:55 +0100 From: Adam J Richardson User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (X11/20070830) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Chris Maness References: <46CCC512.4010700@chrismaness.com> In-Reply-To: <46CCC512.4010700@chrismaness.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Strange rsync issue X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:27:51 -0000 Chris Maness wrote: > I am experiencing a very strange issue when I sync up my FreeBSD file > server with my windows box using rsync. It seems as though the windows > files end up read only in a way that I can't change back to read write > using the standard windows tools, even if I delete it and create it > again, very wierd. I can use the --no-p flag to keep it from copying > these perms over to the FreeBSD box. > > Thanks, Hi Chris. I don't have any experience of rsync, having been scared off it by every internet article and book ever written. I can suggest some alternatives though, if no one can help you out. Have you tried scp? IIRC that does something similar. There's probably a free Windows version. FileZilla does SFTP, so if you have a SSH daemon on your file server you could get files that way. How about Bacula, a very good backup system which has Windows clients? One thing I don't recommend is Samba, which IMO is horrible to configure and doesn't preserve file attributes. NFS is good too, but I haven't been able to find a decent free client. Unix Services for Windows almost trashed my entire XP partition. I'm not trying that again, and I spent ages downloading it too. :/ HtH, Adam J Richardson