Hi John,
What should we expect in DFS if one does a fts dump x -time 9/9/99?
Shyh-Wei Luan
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On Jul 26, 3:17pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Subject: Re: backup ACL only
> Excerpts from transarc.external.info-afs: 25-Jul-96 backup ACL only Tom
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (202*)
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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.
>
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