On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Smith wrote: > On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my > ACLs along with my files? > > I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the > native tar utility, however tar does not support the backing up of ACLs. > Can anyone show me what I need to do?
I don't have a 5.0 system to look at, but looking briefly at the CVS tree, it appears their ACL system is designed to not require special consideration. There seems to be more explanation of the UFS1 implementation, which requires more manual setup, than the UFS2 implementation, which is "natively available". Do your filesystems have a special directory at their root? Possibly .attribute ? (This is the name documented for UFS1.) If this is there then this is where your ACLs are stored and if you're backing up those dirs then you're getting the ACLs. -Mitch
