I am looking to backup acls for Windows so that restored files get their acl back (I just had to restore 3 files and it was a pita to fix their acls). Similarly, I run selinux and it would be nice to have the extended attributes recorded to.
Since rsync can sync both extended attributes and acls, it would seem that one could patch perl-File-RsyncP and then add the attributes (if present) to the relevant attrib file. Such a method would seem to be very consistent with the current approach without being at all kludgey. I would think that with such a fix, Backup would then be able to do full restores for *both* Windows and SELinux. I know this is true for Linux but I am assuming that for Windows files + ownership + acl data = full backup (is that true???? -- i.e is there nothing else hidden in the ntfs file system structure that we would need to restore). The only missing pieces on a windows backup would be files that are busy but in my case that is only the hiberfil.sys, pagefile.sys, and several lock files -- none of which are necessary (or maybe even desirable) for a full restore. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
