On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 06:52:37AM -0500, Joshua Baker-LePain wrote: > On Fri, 9 Jan 2004 at 9:52am, s97sa4 wrote > > > Hi > > > > Please can you help! > > Please email the list itself ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) and not members > directly -- you'll get more responses and not annoy people. > > > I would like to configure Amanda to use Sun tar rather than gnutar > > to preserve ACL on all files that are backed up. > > > > I was gnutar does not preserve all info for ACL. > > I highly doubt Sun's tar is compatible with all the command line options > amanda throws at tar. If you can (i.e. you are backing up partitions), > use ufsdump instead. If not, what I do on my Linux systems is run a > script that dumps all the ACLs to a file, from which they can be restored > (getfacl -R on Linux).
A big problem would be amanad's use of gnu-style options rather than single letter options. I.e. --file foobar rather than -f foobar. -- Jon H. LaBadie [EMAIL PROTECTED] JG Computing 4455 Province Line Road (609) 252-0159 Princeton, NJ 08540-4322 (609) 683-7220 (fax)