On Thu, May 20, 2010 at 15:02, Aneurin Price <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm hoping to use rdiff-backup to perform backups on Windows retaining > full ACLs, including for files which the administrator cannot access. ... > On Cygwin (as of 1.7 at least) file access is wrapped to use the > backup permission all the time, restoring some level of sanity[0]. > This allows all files to be backed up using rdiff-backup in Cygwin, > but Windows ACLs aren't preserved, and Windows ACLs don't map directly > onto POSIX ACLs so it looks like this won't be possible in Cygwin. The > native build of rdiff-backup seems to be able to backup and restore > ACLs, but it can't access quite a lot of my users' files, even when > run as the SYSTEM user. > > Has anyone come across this issue before, and found a solution? I didn't find a direct solution to this problem, however I found a decent workaround: Windows versions since server 2003 SP2 come with a utility called icacls[0] which can be used to back up and restore the ACLs of a full filesystem tree, or whatever subset you specify - rather like metastore[1] for Windows. Nye [0] http://support.microsoft.com/kb/919240 [1] http://david.hardeman.nu/software.php _______________________________________________ rdiff-backup-users mailing list at [email protected] http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/rdiff-backup-users Wiki URL: http://rdiff-backup.solutionsfirst.com.au/index.php/RdiffBackupWiki
