I will soon be setting up a MS-Windows (either XP or 7, not sure which yet) VM on a CentOS 6 host (using KVM). This VM will only be used 2-3 times a year to access a building heating system. The building heating system has its own little computer that communicates over the building's Ethernet LAN using a MS-Windows specific Java program. I will be using a LVM Logical Volume for the VM's disk and using LVM's snapshot capability to create a mountable volume that will use ntfs-3g to mount for Amanda to backup using GNU-Tar. I see that GNU-Tar does not backup NTFS's ACLs -- will this really matter in my case? There will be little on this file system other than the base MS-Windows installation. There won't be any third party applications and no user data.
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