Actually in my experience, you are more likely to see development to
support other OSes OUTSIDE of M$.  What might be an interesting idea is
if there is a freeware/opensource backup/restore program for Windows
that could be integrated into the AmandaClient...


On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:32:45PM -0500, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 12, 2003 at 02:20:39PM -0500, Richard Morse wrote:
> > 
> > On Wednesday, February 12, 2003, at 12:23  PM, Jon LaBadie wrote:
> > >No need to wait.  The backup is being done by tar on the cygwin client.
> > >If it saves ACL info and resets them correctly, then amanda will.
> > >
> > >Do a test on your cygwin client just by creating and extracting a tar
> > >archive.
> > >
> > 
> > So, I tried this, and you are correct -- the ACLs aren't saved by tar 
> > (I guess I was hoping that the cygwin tar would be able to work with 
> > this... perhaps in future versions?
> 
> Highly unlikely.  The cygwin developers change as little as possible
> and the gnutar code compiles with no changes.
> 
> I have a demo copy of MicroSoft's equivalent to cygwin, "Services For Unix"
> (SFU).  Their tar (which is really pax) specifically says it will not do
> Windows ACL's.  If M$ doesn't do it, unlikely the cygwin developers at
> RedHat will.
> 
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