Hello,

I find myself forced to use ACLs for a finer-grained permissions setup
of a few filesystems (Irix CXFS) and I wonder if any of you had done a
similar thing. The irix tar claims to have the capability of backing
up ACLs but I can't use it because of other problems with this
version. Right now I'm using gtar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 along with
Amanda-2.4.4p1-20031120. I can't use xfsdump/xfsrestore due to the
fact that these filesystems are much bigger than my tapes (LTO1) and I
cannot split the filesystems like I do with gtar (xfsdump will only do
full backups for directories).

If that is still not possible to backup (and restore!) ACLs with
gnutar I was thinking of periodically updating a file containing all
the ACLs and I case of a restore just apply the relevent ACLs on top
of the restored file. 

Am I fishing in troubled waters?
Has anyone done something similar?

TIA
jf
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