On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Smith wrote:

> On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my
> ACLs along with my files?
>
> I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the
> native tar utility, however tar does not support the backing up of ACLs.
> Can anyone show me what I need to do?

I don't have a 5.0 system to look at, but looking briefly at the CVS
tree, it appears their ACL system is designed to not require special
consideration.  There seems to be more explanation of the UFS1
implementation, which requires more manual setup, than the UFS2
implementation, which is "natively available".  Do your filesystems
have a special directory at their root?  Possibly .attribute ?
(This is the name documented for UFS1.)  If this is there then this
is where your ACLs are stored and if you're backing up those dirs then
you're getting the ACLs.

-Mitch