Recommended method to backup Samba4 Shares with Permissions

[Richard Sharpe]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 8:53 AM, Andrew LaPierre <alapierre at gccsda.com> wrote:
> In the past I've been using rsync with -a option over NFS but now with ACLs
> it seems that's not going to preserve the permissions. Is there a bast
> method to backup my shares? Preferably something like rsync that just
> copies the changes.

I thought rsync supported XATTRS
(https://rsync.samba.org/security.html) or am I missing something
here?

> I saw a suggestion for using tar which supports xattr and acls but due to
> the size and backup window, sending a full tarball backup across isn't
> reasonable.
>
> Thanks for your suggestions!
>
> --
> Andrew LaPierre
> Information Technology Director
> Georgia-Cumberland Conference



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Regards,
Richard Sharpe
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