Jeffrey J. Kosowsky wrote:
> I am looking to backup acls for Windows so that restored files get
> their acl back (I just had to restore 3 files and it was a pita to fix
> their acls). Similarly, I run selinux and it would be nice to have the
> extended attributes recorded to.
> 
> Since rsync can sync both extended attributes and acls, it would seem
> that one could patch perl-File-RsyncP and then add the attributes (if
> present) to the relevant attrib file. Such a method would seem to be
> very consistent with the current approach without being at all
> kludgey.
> 
> I would think that with such a fix, Backup would then be able to do
> full restores for *both* Windows and SELinux. I know this is true for
> Linux but I am assuming that for Windows files + ownership + acl data
> = full backup (is that true???? -- i.e is there nothing else hidden in
> the ntfs file system structure that we would need to restore). 
> 
> The only missing pieces on a windows backup would be files that are
> busy but in my case that is only the hiberfil.sys, pagefile.sys, and
> several lock files -- none of which are necessary (or maybe even
> desirable) for a full restore.

The registry is another tricky part.  You may need parts relating to 
what you are restoring, but if you aren't going back to exactly the same 
machine/environment you may not want all of it.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell AT gmail DOT com



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