Oh, one minor point. I meant, why not use backup and butc? But if you
want to save ACLs and use tar anyway, you could use some simple scripts.
My scripts don't have anything to do with butc or the AFS backup system...
-- Garrett
On Thu, 25 Jul 1996 15:57:11 -0700 "Garrett D'Amore" wrote:
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> On Thu, 25 Jul 1996 16:13:40 -0400 Tom Nguyen wrote:
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> > Hi all,
> >
> > Do you know if there is a way to backup only ACL under afs ?
> > I'm thinking of backup afs files by using Unix tar. Later, if
> > we need to restore files, we'll use tar and then restore ACL.
> >
> > Tom N.
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> Why not just use vos backupsys and butc? I am sure that you could write
> a couple of scripts to do this easily enough. Here are two samples. I just
> wrote. They seem to be correct, but I've not tested them in production --
> so use with CAUTION -- check them first on unimportant volumes. The backup
> script is bourne shell and uses find. The restore is in perl (because it
> needs a little more parsing saavy.) The beauty of it is that the saved
> backup file is a simple ASCII file that you can read yourself.
>
> NOTE: These scripts do not attempt to create groups and/or users if they
> don't exist. And they do no serious error checking. And they can get caught
> in an infinite loop if you have circular mounts in AFS space. (E.g. vol
> A is mounted in vol B, and vol B is mounted in vol A.) I consider these
> scripts informational only, and assume no responsibility for however you
> decide to use them!
>
> -- Garrett D'Amore
> UNIX System Administration Team
> QUALCOMM Incorporated
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