Security And Shares

  • Security (Permissions)
  • Network Shares (File Shares)
  • Advanced

SECURITY:
On NTFS and other modern file systems, Windows can remember the owner of files and folders and store access permissions. By default, files copied by this software belong to the user account under which the program is running. In this dialog box, you can change the behavior so that file security settings are mirrored also.
NOTE: for two-way permission copying, see the settings at the bottom of the Advanced tab sheet.

Copy Owner Setting
Update existing items (can be slow)
Copy Group Setting
Update existing items (can be slow)
Copy Permissions
Update existing items (can be slow)
Process Base Folder Too
Break inheritance on the base folder if necessary
Copy inherited ACL entries as explicit ones if necessary
To speed up comparing security for existing items, process folders only (and files will just inherit)

SHARES:
This feature duplicates file shares on the other side. Use this to create a backup server with all shares,
which can immediately replace the main server in the case of a failure.

Remote systems must be referenced via UNC network syntax, for example: \\backupserver\C

Compare And Copy File Shares With Permissions
Update shared paths for existing shares
Update share permissions for existing shares
Process shares for selected folders only
Translate shared paths if their location on the destination system is different.

Translation is only possible for shares of the profile's base folders and any of their subfolders.

The options relating to Security IDs (SIDs) affect both Security and Shares. The remaining options affect only File and Folder Security processing.

Translate Security IDs Between Computers/Domains
Right Side Target Domain (optional):

Assume unreadable security settings are different
Strip unknown SIDs
Use ".metadata-syncovery" files to save permissions (rather than native file system security):
For folders on the left side
For folders on the right side
If files are compressed:
Store permissions inside the zip/sz file
Apply permissions to the zip/sz file itself