David Zhang wrote: > Darren J Moffat ??: >> Grant Zhang wrote: >>> I agree with Mark. The point of porting many FOSS packages into Open >>> Solaris is to make people comfortable enough in using the very same >>> tools in Open Solaris. >>> >>> Back to this case, Areca is a backup utility, not a crypto utility. >>> Encryption is just one feature provided by Areca, although as you >>> observed, not very strong encryption. It is possible to use Areca to >>> back up the files totally unencrypted, which is not uncommon in >>> personal backup space. For folks with strong security needs, >>> encrypt(1) or mac(1) can still be used on the backups. >> >> Backup utilities need to backup *ALL* the data and *ALL* the >> permissions. If extended attribtues are not able to be included then >> that is not *ALL* the data, if ACLs are not included then that is not >> *ALL* the permissions. > > What if I shoot a CR to the author to let him imporove it for Solaris or > for all Unix platform. I think that could be also a issue for Linux.
The crypto issues are likely common to all platforms. The issue of lack of support for ZFS ACLs and extended attributes doesn't apply to Linux because ZFS doesn't really exist there (yes I know about the FUSE support but lets not turn this into a debate about why ZFS doesn't exist *in* Linux). Does the product properly support ACLs and named streams from NTFS on Windows ? -- Darren J Moffat
