On Thu, Mar 07, 2002 at 08:58:22AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Mar 2002 at 5:03pm, Jenn Sturm wrote
>
> > That should read "Now I've got a successful backup of the IRIX box,
> > but when I try to restore on the Linux host,..."
> One option for being able to restore files from the IRIX box on the
> Linux tape server is to install xfsdump/xfsrestore on your Linux tape
> server. SGI has ported them to Linux. You wouldn't even need to install
> a patched kernel (with XFS filesystem support) if all you want to do is
> run xfsrestore. Just install (RPMs available) xfsdump, recompile amanda,
> and you're off and running. Of course, this way you'll *still* be losing
> ACL information. To get everything back, run amrecover on the Irix
> client, which will automatically use the xfsrestore available on the SGI
> box.
But shouldn't an XFS kernel also preserve ACLs and attrs of restoring an
xfs dump image to an xfs volume?
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