On 1/26/06, Gordon J. Mills III <Gordon.Mills AT usa DOT net> wrote:
> I'm sure this has come up before but I've only been on the list a short
> while. Has anyone ever looked into backing up the file permissions (ACL's)
> on windows client machines using Amanda? For windows clients that seems to
> be the only major thing missing. Of course an exclusion list would be nice
> too, but maybe not as important.
>
> Just curious as to what others have done or experienced in the way of
> backing up windows clients and acls. I have seen references to star on the
> net as perhaps being able to do it....

star is definitely a good way to backup ACLs and extended attributes.
Unfortunately,
star does not backup Windows ACLs (It backups POSIX ACLs). We are working on
extending star to support Windows ACL.

Paddy
>
> Regards,
> Gordon
>
>
>


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