On Wed, 12 Feb 2003 at 2:20pm, Richard Morse wrote > So, I tried this, and you are correct -- the ACLs aren't saved by tar > (I guess I was hoping that the cygwin tar would be able to work with > this... perhaps in future versions? > > However, I also did do my test restore. It worked, although the > permissions were, of course, incorrect. So, if you're like me, and are > really only interested in backing up user data -- not programs, or > system files, it'll probably work correctly.
Thanks for reporting this back to the list -- valuable info, and not something I was willing to sully my hands with. ;) > I'm still looking around to see if there are cygwin based (or, at > least, command line based that can write to STDOUT, as I imagine that's > all that's needed) backup programs with do handle acls... Actually, getting amanda to use some other program (i.e. not GNUtar or *dump) for backups is not exactly trivial. The (long in coming) DUMPER-API is supposed to fix that, but is still a ways off (probably, I'm not really sure). -- Joshua Baker-LePain Department of Biomedical Engineering Duke University
