Les Mikesell wrote at about 14:48:03 -0600 on Monday, November 24, 2008:
 > 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.
 > 
But if you are doing a *full* restore (which is what I was referring
to), I assume that wouldn't be a problem, right? or am I missing some
subtlety about registries...

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