Thanks for the hints. You are right with BackupPC V3. I've a running bare metal restore finished in 2013, running well on WindowsXP, Vista, Windows7 and Windows8, based on BackupPC V3 and a pre-exec.sh (cygwin) using fsutil for the junction points and secaudit for ACLs. Unfortunately secaudit isn't working in current cygwin release.
Based on documentation Extended attributes (xattr) are supported. Rsync is configured to "store acls using xattr", meaning both acls and xattrs are supported. I believed BackupPC V4 is supporting ACLs. At least my bare metal restore is working. Windows will boot and don't have issues. I'm just wondering about the changed ACLs. I'll have look on subinacl. Let see if I can improve it. Thanks a lot Matthias I believed rsync_bpc is supporting ACLs. At least it transfer some of it. BackupPC3 doesn't transfer any ACL Am Mittwoch, dem 19.02.2025 um 14:23 +0000 schrieb backu...@kosowsky.org: > G.W. Haywood wrote at about 14:04:10 +0000 on Wednesday, February 19, 2025: > > Hi there, > > > > On Wed, 19 Feb 2025, Matthias@ wrote: > > > > > I running BackuPC V4.4 for managing some Windows PCs with rsync. > > > In restoring of ACLs something seems to be wrong. > > > ... > > > ... > > > Is it a feature based on differences between Windows and POSIX and > > > can't be solved or do I something wrong? > > > > Even when I supported Windows networks (not for a few years now), I > > have never restored anything other than lost or corrupted data files > > for users who have been running computers otherwise working normally. > > > > So I haven't looked into the sort of issues you're meeting. Having > > said that I've seen any number of people talking about the problems > > they've had trying to do what is effectively a 'bare metal' restore, > > and I've concluded that with BackupPC as distributed it's impossible. > > After all it isn't really possible with Linux either, you need to put > > a working system on the client before you can even fetch an archive > > from the BackupPC server... > > > > There are probably many threads both on this list and elsewhere which > > talk about the Windows/NTFS issues, here is the first one I found: > > > > > https://sourceforge.net/p/backuppc/mailman/backuppc-users/thread/4b12edc7.7090...@gmail.com/ > > > > There's quite a lot of food for thought in that one thread, but I'm > > sure that it would be useful to search for more. > > > > > The restored application is running. So maybe my issue isn't a issue. > > > > :) > > > > @Matthias that is one of the threads I was referring to in my reply > where the OP discussed his method based on elements of my approach. > > BTW, I stopped backing up Windows ACL and system files a long time ago > -- it just wasn't worth it due to the complexity and uncertainty if it > would back up everything needed at a bare-metal level restore. > > Instead, I just back up Windows data files now and occasionally (too > occasionally) use 'clonezilla' > > > _______________________________________________ > BackupPC-users mailing list > BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net > List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users > Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki > Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: https://github.com/backuppc/backuppc/wiki Project: https://backuppc.github.io/backuppc/
