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Leave ACL handling to Windows with Cygwin rsync

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Mar 15, 202612246 views
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Problem

I'm running an command, copying my files from a server to my Windows machine like: Whenever this command creates a directory, it tends to create a directory with crazy ACLs/permissions. For me, it tends to create ten entries, with one deny entry for the user who ran the command, and the others not …

Error Output

rsync -rt --partial-dir=".rsync" --del rsync://server/a/ a/

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Fix for: Leave ACL handling to Windows with Cygwin rsync

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Mount the directory in question with the option, as described in the manual. (And if you want to know why the mapping of Unix permissions to Windows ACLs is not straightforward, see here.)

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