Hello, I find myself forced to use ACLs for a finer-grained permissions setup of a few filesystems (Irix CXFS) and I wonder if any of you had done a similar thing. The irix tar claims to have the capability of backing up ACLs but I can't use it because of other problems with this version. Right now I'm using gtar (GNU tar) 1.13.25 along with Amanda-2.4.4p1-20031120. I can't use xfsdump/xfsrestore due to the fact that these filesystems are much bigger than my tapes (LTO1) and I cannot split the filesystems like I do with gtar (xfsdump will only do full backups for directories).
If that is still not possible to backup (and restore!) ACLs with gnutar I was thinking of periodically updating a file containing all the ACLs and I case of a restore just apply the relevent ACLs on top of the restored file. Am I fishing in troubled waters? Has anyone done something similar? TIA jf -- Better to be silent and thought a fool than to speak and remove all doubt.
