Robocopy, for Linux

[xAcid9]

Hey guys. I have this batch script for windows that will sync a few network shared folders to my usb drive. I use robocopy /mir for the script.

 

Is there an equivalent command to do it in Linux?

I came across Rysnc but from what i checked and tried, it doesn't support Samba and it couldn't retain the attribute of the original files copied from Windows filesystem.

[Sauron]

the direct equivalent should be rsync

[Eigenvektor]

52 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

I came across Rysnc but from what i checked and tried, it doesn't support Samba and it couldn't retain the attribute of the original files copied from Windows filesystem.

Mount the Samba share. Then you can treat it like a local directory, no need for rsync to worry about that.

 

To preserve permissions and attributes you should use --archive (-a), not sure if this works with Windows attributes though.

[xAcid9]

Thanks.

Local smb mount workaround works but rsync can't copy file attributes(hidden, read-only) from NTFS even with --xattrs(-X).

Similar experience with cp. 

[Sauron]

58 minutes ago, xAcid9 said:

Local smb mount workaround works but rsync can't copy file attributes(hidden, read-only) from NTFS even with --xattrs(-X).

This is an issue with carrying permissions over to a different filesystem rather than with rsync or cp specifically. More information here

 

You could try working around this limitation with some clever scripting using the ntfs-3g.secaudit utility - you'd need to read all file and folder permissions recursively from the source and save them somewhere for reference, use rsync, then reapply the same permissions to the target folder tree. If you're copying to a different filesystem you could define and apply the closest equivalent.