Deltacopy is a Windows app that can be installed on a client and used to connect to an rsync server. There are details on installation here: http://wpkg.org/DeltaCopy The main disadvantage of RoboCopy is that if a file is changed then the whole file is recopied. This might be okay for small files but is a pain for big stuff like .pst files. Rsync is a significantly more efficient way to copy files. On 16 September 2010 17:01, Natxo Asenjo <natxo.asenjo at gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 15, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Todd Blum <todd at toddblum.org> wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am using WPKG for the first time. I have WPKG and wpkgexpress > > running on XMPP on a Windows XP workstation in a Windows domain > environment. > > > > I have been updating my company's .NET application with a script > that > > runs cwrsync on the Program Files directory on the user's workstations, > but > > I've been getting in to some trouble because cwrsync leaves the ownership > > and permissions of the files different than it finds them. I was hoping > to > > use WPKG to first set ownership and permissions on the program's Program > > Files directory, perform the cwrsync script, then set the ownership and > > permissions again on the Program Files directory. I'm not readily seeing > a > > package example for changing filesystem permissions--does anyone know the > > best way to perform these tasks? > > you can use setacl http://setacl.sourceforge.net/ to set all the > permissions you want (not for the faint of heart, but windows > permissions are really complicated). Or you can use robocopy instead > of rsync to move files around. Robocopy can keep the permisssion of > the source files in a domain environment.. It comes with the resource > kit, I think > > > I chose rsync as the update model because the program doesn't have > to > > be reinstalled with each update, and I thought it would minimize > bandwidth > > usage (the rsync server is centralized and there are many disparate > > networks). > > rsync is really nice and I use it all the time in our linux > environment but it is not designed for windows ;-). Robocopy will only > copy files if they have changed. > > -- > natxo > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > wpkg-users mailing list archives >> > http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/ > _______________________________________________ > wpkg-users mailing list > wpkg-users at lists.wpkg.org > http://lists.wpkg.org/mailman/listinfo/wpkg-users > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.wpkg.org/pipermail/wpkg-users/attachments/20100916/f4349335/attachment.html> |