[wpkg-users] Need help having WPKG set filesystem permissions before and after running script

[Peter Gough]

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
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