On 1/26/06, Jon LaBadie <jon AT jgcomp DOT com> wrote:
> 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?

We are thinking about it. It will require more than Amanda supporting
star command.
It will be easier when Application API
(http://wiki.zmanda.com/index.php/Application_API) is implemented.

Paddy
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