> >> Naturally, I do lose ACLs and whatnot, but aside from a few tweaks,
> >> the process at least works. I've been considering adding a
> >> supplemental ACL backup to the routine.
> >
> > That sounds like a useful idea, but really, what are the ACL's used
> > for? Is that just additional end-user type of customisation where you
> > might specify only user X can access folder X, and folder Y is world
> > read but write by group Z etc... ? ie, is that just a security issue,
> > or does it prevent the actual OS or applications from working?
>
> In practice, the only issue I had were the "hidden" and "system"
> attributes being missing from desktop.ini files. Aside from being ugly,
> this caused the OS to launch an editor for them on boot (which seems odd
> to me.)
>
>
Would it help to update the client versions of rsync and cygwin? I recall
doing that when working on getting your solution to restore natively (via
rsync - and just selected files, not bare metal). It helped with fixing
some ACL issues, so it may preserve some attributes better.
-Kris
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