Strange rsync issue

[youshi10 at u.washington.edu]

On Thu, 30 Aug 2007, Adam J Richardson wrote:

> 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

Oh, another PS. Cygwin offers an NFS server, so you can setup an NFS server via Cygwin on the Windows box and transfer files from FreeBSD as an NFS client.

-Garrett