Kris Lou wrote at about 09:40:12 -0700 on Wednesday, July 11, 2012: > > >> 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.
While newer versions of rsync can handle ACLs (and for Linux SELinux), backuppc does *not* back them up at all. Moreover, at least cygwin rsync only handles the POSTFIX portion of Windows ACLs (that generated by getfacl/setfacl) while Windows uses a more extensive set of ACLs that can be retrieved/set via 'subinacl' ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
