On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:52:37AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 at 9:52am, s97sa4 wrote
> 
> > Hi
> > 
> > Please can you help!
> 
> Please email the list itself (amanda-users AT amanda DOT org) and not members 
> directly -- you'll get more responses and not annoy people.
> 
> > I would like to configure Amanda to use Sun tar rather than gnutar 
> > to preserve ACL on all files that are backed up.
> > 
> > I was gnutar does not preserve all info for ACL.
> 
> I highly doubt Sun's tar is compatible with all the command line options 
> amanda throws at tar.  If you can (i.e. you are backing up partitions), 
> use ufsdump instead.  If not, what I do on my Linux systems is run a 
> script that dumps all the ACLs to a file, from which they can be restored 
> (getfacl -R on Linux).

A big problem would be amanad's use of gnu-style options rather than
single letter options.  I.e. --file foobar  rather than -f foobar.

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