Recommended method to backup Samba4 Shares with Permissions

[Andrew LaPierre]

On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 1:03 PM, Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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
>
>
Sure enough...I must be running into something else. I'll keep
experimenting. Thanks!