Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 11:55:43 -0400 (EDT) From: Francisco <francisco@natserv.net> To: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> Cc: Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: any backup utilities for ACLs? Message-ID: <20050806115137.U37133@zoraida.natserv.net> In-Reply-To: <44hde93icc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> References: <20050730125158.V542@dru.domain.org> <44hde93icc.fsf@be-well.ilk.org>
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On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Dru <dlavigne6@sympatico.ca> writes: > >> However, I can't seem to find a backup program that will actually >> restore the ACLs. The day sent that message I tried looking too.. Interestingly enough tar describes that it can restore ACL.. yet it seems it fails to back them up. Perhaps we should do a send-pr on it. > Did you try dump(8)? That is, after all, the canonical backup program. > I thought it got ACL support a couple of years ago... Even if dump works it would be nice to have a way to backup individual files... specially for copying to other machines where one may want to have the same permissions (as long as the user IDs are the same and the same user names of course).
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