* Joshua Baker-LePain <jlb17 AT duke DOT edu> [20040730 11:20]:
> On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 10:50am, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote
> 
> > 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?
> 
> Where I can't use xfsdump/restore, I do indeed dump the ACLs to a file for 
> future restore if the need arises.  At least I used to... <fx: roots 
> around in FSs/memory/man pages>.  Ah, try something like this in your 
> crontab before amanda runs:
> 
> getfacl -R dirname > /somewhare/safe/dirname.ACLs
> 
> If the need to restore the ACLs on dirname, you'd do
> 
> setfacl --restore=/somewhare/safe/dirname.ACLs
> 
> Note that I took the command line flags from the man pages for {s|g}etfacl 
> on a Red Hat 9 box, so check them against the IRIX man pages.

Thank you very much for your answer Joshua. 

I don't think there is an equivalent of 'getfacl/setfacl' for Irix
however with 'chacl' (irix command to change ACLs) and a few lines of
perl it should prove easy to write a program to save and restore ACLs.

bye,
jf

> 
> -- 
> Joshua Baker-LePain
> Department of Biomedical Engineering
> Duke University

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