How to backing up ACL's on remote server ?

[Philip Lowman]

It looks like the rsync binary on the remote machine doesn't have ACL 
support compiled in.  You'll need the acl support on all the servers you'll 
be using the acl flag.

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Philip Lowman

...... Original Message .......
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005 10:53:44 +0100 "Ian Clancy" <ClancyIan at cel.ie> wrote:
>Hi List,
>I'm currently backing up a number of samba servers onto a remote server 
>using a perl script called rsnapshot which utilises rsync. Over the last 
>few i've started using posix ACL's on my samba server and now I would 
>like to be able to back up these ACLS's.
>All of my servers are have their filesystems (ext3) mounted with ACL 
>support and i am using the following version of rsync compiled with the 
>acl patch :
>
>rsync  version 2.6.6  protocol version 29
>Copyright (C) 1996-2005 by Andrew Tridgell and others
><http://rsync.samba.org/>
>Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, ACLs, symlinks, 
>batchfiles,
>              inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
>
>
>At the moment i can back up acls on the local system. For example the 
>following works fine :
>
>/usr/local/bin/rsync -artlDPpv --acls /var/log/gdm /tmp
>
>However, when i try to backup a remote system i recieve some errors:
>
>/usr/local/bin/rsync -AaPv --delete --numeric-ids --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh 
>--link-dest=/var/backups/trace/hourly.1/Data/ 
>root at 192.168.6.12:"/var/shares/Traceability/Trace\ V114/data/" 
>/var/backups/trace/hourly.0/Data/
>
>rsync: on remote machine: -vlAogDtpr: unknown option
>rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(1084)
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)
>
>
>Finally, my question is, Do i need to install rsync with ACL's support 
>on all my samba servers ?
>Is there anything else i am doing wrong ?.
>
>thanks,
>Ian
>
>
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