I'm working on a backup solution using the ZFS file system. The idea is somewhat like rdiff-backup, except that the backup tool doesn't need to worry about versioning, compressiong, or deduplicating the files. ZFS will handle compression and deduplication. rsnapshot will handle versioning.

The issue I am running into is that I am not sure how to copy files from windows to the Linux and preserve ACLs. I am thinking about building a client for windows machines in python that would be responsible for copying the files to the backup server's "staging" area. It would need to A) use an rsync like protocal so only deltas get sent over the network B) use VSS for hot-backups and C) preserve ACL info on the backed up files. I have good leads on A & B, but not sure about C, hence this email.

Obviously, it would be ideal if something like this already existed, but I am not aware of anything. rdiff-backup is close, but I just don't need all the extra versioning stuff it does.

Thoughts or suggestions appreciated.

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