On 11/25/05, Matt Hyclak <hyclak AT math.ohiou DOT edu> wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2005 at 09:35:47AM -0500, Guy Dallaire enlightened us:
> > The network admin here would like to start using ACL's on some files (Centos
> > 4.1 a read hat 4 clone, and Red Hat 4). We use amanda (with gnutar) I don't
> > think gnu tar supports it (other than by using dump, which we don't want to
> > do for reliability reasons)
> >
> > Do you know if ACL support is planned ?
> >
>
> Not directly. You have a couple options:
>
> 1. Dump the ACLs to a file (probably with getfattr) and back up that file.
>
> 2. Write a wrapper for gnutar that uses star, which does support some ACLs
>    last I checked.

star (http://freshmeat.net/projects/star/) supports ACLs and extended
attributes (on Linux). You will need to install python acl and
extended attribute libraries to use it.

Use star 1.5 to avoid backup/restore problems.

To write wrapper scripts, please see
http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Backup_client#pre_and_post-_backup_scripts_wrappers

If you write a gnutar wrapper script, please contrinute it to Amanda.

Thanks,
Paddy
>
> There's probably others, as well, but it's late :-)
>
> HTH,
> Matt
>
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> Matt Hyclak
> Department of Mathematics
> Department of Social Work
> Ohio University
> (740) 593-1263
>


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