Networker

Re: [Networker] backup of nas shares...

2008-01-10 15:26:28
Subject: Re: [Networker] backup of nas shares...
From: A Darren Dunham <ddunham AT TAOS DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 20:22:24 +0000
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 02:31:02PM -0500, Matthew Huff wrote:
> 1) Devices like NetApp support both NFS & Cifs. The qtrees may have
> authorization acls stored either in NFS or CIFS format, or both. Backing
> the device up via a NFS client might cause it to loose the Windows ACLS,
> and vice versa.

Other devices might do other things, but netapp specifically allows CIFS
backups to store and restore both CIFS and NFS permissions structures
(the NFS structure is stored in an hidden ACL entry).

This doesn't apply to NFS, which will be unable to handle the ACLs.  (At
least that was true prior to NFSv4...)

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham AT taos DOT com
Senior Technical Consultant         TAOS            http://www.taos.com/
Got some Dr Pepper?                           San Francisco, CA bay area
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