Charles, I'm not a Samba expert, but I have been researching how best to back up Samba shares, especially as it relates to ACLs.
To use ACLs with Samba, I believe it is best to have a Filesystem that supports ACLs. I only know of 2 that do: "ext2/ext3 with the ACL patch" and XFS. >From what I understand, it is preferred to backup "ext2/ext3 with the ACL patch" with >star. And it is preferred to backup XFS with xfsdump. If you don't use a filesystem that understands ACLs, then Samba maintains all the ACL info in a common file. You as the administrator are responsible for creating a backup mechanism that captures the Samba ACL info. That is easy if you are happy with doing a full share backup/restore, but if you want to be able to do individual file saves/restores, then you have to have some way of saving/restoring the ACL data on a file by file basis. === Backing up a Samba client This was the original need, but from what I understand smbmount does not handle ACLs, so there is no way to get the remote ACL info. and back it up. Greg >> I think XFSdump does on XFS filesystems...but I could be wrong. >> Charles >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On >> > Behalf Of Greg Freemyer >> > Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2002 2:20 PM >> > To: ACEAlex; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> > Subject: re: [Samba] Backup software >> > >> > >> > >> > To the best of my knowledge their is not an OpenSource backup >> > method that will backup the ACLs on the client. >> > >> > If your clients are using FAT, then you have no problems. >> > >> > If they are running NTFS on the clients, then you have ACLs >> > to worry about, and you will have to decide if you need the >> > ACLs backed up up or not. >> > >> > i.e. ACLs are the NTFS security info. >> > >> > Note: Samba ACLs can be backed up if you ensure you are >> > running the right backup software like star or xfsdump. >> > >> > >> Hello >> > >> > >> Im planing on doing an open source software that handels >> > backups. The >> > >> purpose is to backup clients in an nt domain. I know >> > that there are >> > >> comercial software out there but i want to do it the >> > right way "open >> > >> source >> > >> :)". Oki here is my plan >> > >> > >> 1. On every client i have a user that has read access to >> > the whole system >> > >> drive. That user and password is stored on the backup >> > server aswell. >> > >> 2. The user will use a web interface and from that >> > request a backup of the >> > >> system. >> > >> 3. The backup server will store the request and later >> > that night it will >> > >> use >> > >> samba to mount the client drive and make the backup. Im >> > planing on using >> > >> gzip or bzip on every file in the system so that you >> > easily could recover >> > >> files. The files will be stored on cheap ide harddrives. >> > You will also be >> > >> able to filter out files that you dont need to backup >> > "word.exe, swapfile >> > >> etc" >> > >> > >> > >> Now i wounder if there are any other people out there >> > that already has >> > >> done >> > >> it. Is it a great ide or not? >> > >> > >> /Alexander >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> -- >> > >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL >> > and read the >> > >> instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > Greg Freemyer >> > Internet Engineer >> > Deployment and Integration Specialist >> > The Norcross Group >> > www.NorcrossGroup.com >> > >> > >> > -- >> > To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> > instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba >> -- >> To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the >> instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba Greg Freemyer Internet Engineer Deployment and Integration Specialist The Norcross Group www.NorcrossGroup.com -- To unsubscribe from this list go to the following URL and read the instructions: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/samba
