On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:30:14AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth said:
> 
> 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 ?

No, with UFS2 the ACLs just 'exist' as part of the filesystem, yet I am not
sure how to export them out.


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