[Samba] ACLs - backup and restore

[Lee Ball]

Have you checked on the home page?

This link specifies hints for using Star and ACL support:

http://cdrecord.berlios.de/old/private/star-acl.html

Felipe wrote:
> Thanks for the link, Lee. I'm testing "star" but I didn't find many
> informations about it..
> 
> I used this way to backup my files:
> 
> [root at srv1 shares]# star -c -Hexustar -acl -C /home/shares/data/ .
> f=/home/tmp/backup2.tgz
> star: 2 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 20480 bytes = 20.00k).
> 
> And this way to restore:
> 
> [root at srv1 shares]# star -xp -acl -C /home/shares/data/ f=/home/tmp/backup2.tgz
> star: current './' newer.
> star: current 'publica/' newer.
> star: current 'felipe/' newer.
> star: current 'felipe/teste/' newer.
> star: current 'felipe/teste.txt' newer.
> star: current 'felipe/aazevedo/' newer.
> star: 2 blocks + 0 bytes (total of 20480 bytes = 20.00k).
> 
> But it didn't restore the acls of my files and folders.. Do anybody
> know what I'm doing wrong?
> 
> thanks!
> 
> regards,
> Felipe.
> 
> 
> 
> 2005/8/10, Lee Ball <lee at effective-it.co.uk>:
> 
>>Try using star (http://freshmeat.net/projects/star/) it supports ACLs
>>whereas tar doesn't.
>>
>>Felipe wrote:
>>
>>>Hi all,
>>>
>>>How is the best way to perform backups of my files witch has acls in
>>>order to don't lose then when I need to recover some file or folder?
>>>
>>>Is there anybody here who has problems of losing acls when backup
>>>files and restore?
>>>
>>>thanks!
>>>Felipe.
>>