Hi, Nicola Ferrari (#554252) wrote on 2015-10-17 10:26:51 +0200 [Re: [BackupPC-users] Backuppc and acls / xattrs]: > [...] > Sorry but I cant understand. -A -X options are already activated in the > rsync command in my xfer configuration in backuppc. > Do I have to upgrade to BackupPC 4.0 ?
as far as I know, ACLs and extended attributes are neither supported in BackupPC 3.x nor in 4.x. Support in 4.x will probably be added in a future version, in 3.x that is highly unlikely. That is not a bug as such, it is simply a feature that has not been implemented (yet). > [...] > So the one that comes installed with backuppc in debian, isn't the > "original" rsync executable? BackupPC 3.x does not use native rsync at all on the server side, it uses the Perl module File::RsyncP. This only supports certain options. In 4.x this was changed to a patched version of rsync written in C (possibly stripped down to not support options that BackupPC can't handle). The general problem with options like -A and -X is that the additional information needs to be *stored* somewhere in the backup - e.g. in an attrib file for 3.x or the database for 4.x. That doesn't just magically happen but rather needs to be carefully designed and implemented, taking into consideration what other similar meta-data there might be now or in the future. As there are workarounds available (dump the information into a file in a pre-backup script), Craig's main focus is probably on stable backup functionality first and "features" later on. Hope that helps. Regards, Holger ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
