On Thu, Jan 26, 2006 at 08:52:58AM -0800, Paddy Sreenivasan wrote:
> 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.


Are you working on a way to backup files on windows that currently do
not get backed up?  Eg. system and files open by another app?

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