Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 25-Jul-96 backup ACL only Tom
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> 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.
Hi Tom:
This bit of information is not relevant to what you want to do, but it
is interesting still.
If you do a vos dump of the volume with a future -time date ("vos dump
user.john -time 9/9/99"), the resulting incremental dump will contain no
files but will contain the volume's directories _including their ACLs_.
Try it. Then restore the incremental dump to a NEW volume and mount it.
You are able to traverse the tree, query the ACLs, but the files are not
found.
And a warning: Don't restore the incremental dump over an existing
volume. If you restore over the same volume, you will lose the changes
made between the time it took to dump and restore. If you restore over a
different volume, you will lose all the original data in the volume
(btw: recreating a volume by restoring from a tar constitutes a
different volume).
- John Morin.
