Re: Backing up ACLs on FreeBSD 10

2014-03-21 Thread Jean-Louis Martineau
Toomas, Amanda 3.3.6 will have a new ambsdtar application that use the bsd tar program to back up with ACLs. Jean-Louis On 03/17/2014 05:19 PM, Toomas Aas wrote: Hello! This first FreeBSD 10 server is also my first encounter with filesystem ACLs. As thousands of Amanda users before me, I

Backing up ACLs on FreeBSD 10

2014-03-17 Thread Toomas Aas
Hello! This first FreeBSD 10 server is also my first encounter with filesystem ACLs. As thousands of Amanda users before me, I discovered that GNU tar doesn't back up ACLs and star is often recommended as an alternative which does. Only thing is, the star port doesn't want to

Re: amgtar + acls?

2009-07-04 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Am 03.07.09 22:39 schrieb(en) Dustin J. Mitchell: Albrecht -- amgtar is now an Amanda application, and its interface is not the same as the tar executable. I see - I forgot to mention that I use amanda 2.5.2p1 on a set of Ubuntu Hardy and RHEL boxes. I re-compiled it myself to get access to

Re: amgtar + acls?

2009-07-03 Thread Dustin J. Mitchell
On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 2:43 PM, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > My /usr/local/sbin/amgtar is simply a shell script wrapping the Fedora tar > as to include the extended attributes: > > > #!/bin/sh > /opt/bin/setar --xattrs "$@" > > > Hope this helps, > Albrecht. Albrecht -- amgtar is now an Amanda applica

Re: amgtar + acls?

2009-07-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
On Friday 03 July 2009, Albrecht Dreß wrote: > Am 03.07.09 17:58 schrieb(en) Alan Hodgson: > > Does anyone have a working example of using amgtar to backup ACLs > > and/or selinux attributes? > > Apparently Fedora comes with a patched tar which supports xattr's, see >

Re: amgtar + acls?

2009-07-03 Thread Albrecht Dreß
Am 03.07.09 17:58 schrieb(en) Alan Hodgson: Does anyone have a working example of using amgtar to backup ACLs and/or selinux attributes? Apparently Fedora comes with a patched tar which supports xattr's, see <https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=200925> a

amgtar + acls?

2009-07-03 Thread Alan Hodgson
Does anyone have a working example of using amgtar to backup ACLs and/or selinux attributes? It seems that any of the --acls, --selinux or --xattrs flags are actually incompatible with the --listed-incremental flag to GNU tar? I hacked the --xattrs option into amgtar but I can't seem to g

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-10-02 Thread Gene Heskett
On Sunday 02 October 2005 20:57, David Leangen wrote: >Thanks again for all your help. Comments inline. > >> Well, I guess I'm convinced to try out tar > >Setting up tar was a snap, and there were no errors! > >One more perhaps silly question, but just something I'd like to > verify... > >I assume

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-10-02 Thread David Leangen
Thanks again for all your help. Comments inline. Well, I guess I'm convinced to try out tar Setting up tar was a snap, and there were no errors! One more perhaps silly question, but just something I'd like to verify... I assume that the tar program is run on the client machine, so that mea

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-28 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 09:30:05AM +0900, David Leangen wrote: > > Well, I guess I'm convinced to try out tar, but not to play the devil's > advocate, I'm just curious... > > >I don't (didn't) use tar at Purdue, in general, because it > > changes the access time on the files it backs up. That'

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-28 Thread David Leangen
Well, I guess I'm convinced to try out tar, but not to play the devil's advocate, I'm just curious... I don't (didn't) use tar at Purdue, in general, because it > changes the access time on the files it backs up. That's a > very bad thing. Why is this such a bad thing? If we suppose that (

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-28 Thread John R. Jackson
>The actual reasons why one might prefer tar to dump are that tar is >cross-platform ... >... and tar allows you to make backups of arbitrary (sub-)directory >trees instead of entire filesystems. In addition to that, the reason tar is **strongly** pushed on Linux is that dump works with the raw

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-28 Thread Toomas Aas
Gene Heskett wrote: Well, tar is file based, and its recovery can be to an already occupied directory. Dump does the disk structure (AIUI) so that the recovered stuff goes back to the same place on the disk (if I've got it right that is, corrections welcome) Files from backups made with dump

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 27 September 2005 02:48, David Leangen wrote: [...] >Why would tar be better than dump? It seems to me, based on what my >understanding of the two are, that dump is more appropriate. That's not >the case? > Well, tar is file based, and its recovery can be to an already occupied directo

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread David Leangen
partition, would this cause a problem? Start with man pages setfacl and getfacl (I think those are the names in FC3). Yes, you're right. Ok, so ACL is just the name for file and directory permissions... no big deal at all. Appears your release does not do ACLs, but if you upgrade your

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
rippled. > > Wonderful folks, those vendors. > >From the home page of the dump/restore development group: An experimental patch for dump-0.4b39 can be downloaded here which adds EA/ACL (Extended Attributes/Access Control Lists) support in both dump and restore. This patch

RE: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread David Leangen
Thank you for all the replies! Comments inline... > >sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : normal(|) DUMP+ ACLs in inode #xxx wont't be > >dumped sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] > Offhand, it sounds like a permissions problem but what do I know? &

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread John R. Jackson
>I am getting something like the following in my logs, and somehow it >doesn't seem right... > >sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : normal(|) DUMP+ ACLs in inode #xxx wont't be >dumped First, please realize that it's your dump program reporting this, not Amanda. Amand

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:21:46PM +0900, David Leangen wrote: > > Hello! > > I am getting something like the following in my logs, and somehow it > doesn't seem right... > > sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : normal(|) DUMP+ ACLs in inode #xxx wont't be > dumped &

Re: ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread Gene Heskett
On Monday 26 September 2005 05:21, David Leangen wrote: >Hello! > >I am getting something like the following in my logs, and somehow it >doesn't seem right... > >sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : normal(|) DUMP+ ACLs in inode #xxx wont't be >dumped >sendbackup : tim

ACLs in inode #bla won't be dumped

2005-09-26 Thread David Leangen
Hello! I am getting something like the following in my logs, and somehow it doesn't seem right... sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : normal(|) DUMP+ ACLs in inode #xxx wont't be dumped sendbackup : time xxx.xxx : index tee cannot write [Broken pipe] Any ideas what all this about? Thanks! Dave

Re: gnutar and IRIX ACLs

2004-07-31 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
* Joshua Baker-LePain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [20040730 11:20]: > On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 10:50am, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote > > > I find myself forced to use ACLs for a finer-grained permissions setup > > of a few filesystems (Irix CXFS) and I wonder if any of you had done

Re: gnutar and IRIX ACLs

2004-07-30 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Fri, 30 Jul 2004 at 10:50am, Jean-Francois Malouin wrote > I find myself forced to use ACLs for a finer-grained permissions setup > of a few filesystems (Irix CXFS) and I wonder if any of you had done a > similar thing. The irix tar claims to have the capability of backing > u

gnutar and IRIX ACLs

2004-07-30 Thread Jean-Francois Malouin
Hello, I find myself forced to use ACLs for a finer-grained permissions setup of a few filesystems (Irix CXFS) and I wonder if any of you had done a similar thing. The irix tar claims to have the capability of backing up ACLs but I can't use it because of other problems with this version.

Re: Solaris ACLs

2004-03-09 Thread Jon LaBadie
Amanda", but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining > > to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants? > > ... > > > > The man page doesn't mention ACL's, but I suspect it will That was supposed to say "ufsdump man pag

Re: Solaris ACLs

2004-03-09 Thread Martin Hepworth
Talking of snapshots, FreeBSD 5.x can do this too with the -L flag to dump. Can someone remind me of how to generate a specific backup type (in amanda.conf) that passes the -L flag to dump on the remote system. Ta -- Martin Hepworth Snr Systems Administrator Solid State Logic Tel: +44 (0)1865 8

Re: Solaris ACLs

2004-03-08 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Mon, Mar 08, 2004 at 06:35:49PM -0600, Frank Smith wrote: > Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software > that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with > "Amanda", but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining

Solaris ACLs

2004-03-08 Thread Frank Smith
Someone on the sage-members list is looking for free backup software that met his listed requirements, and I was about to reply with "Amanda", but I wasn't sure about his requirement #5 (below) pertaining to Solaris ACLs. Will Amanda actually do what he wants? Thanks, Frank >

Re: Backup of ACLs

2003-06-22 Thread Joerg Schilling
You wrote: >tar won't get ACLs. An FS specific dump program probably will. >> If i must use star instead of tar, where i must configure this? >> (which entry in which file?) >I don't know if star is drop-in replaceable for tar. ISTR that it only >does one leve

Re: Backup of ACLs

2003-04-03 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thu April 3 2003 10:02, Jon LaBadie wrote: >On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:15:32PM +0200, Dalton Hubert wrote: >> Hi, >> >> we are thinking about using ACLs (extended attributes and access >> control lists) on our file server, of which we make a full >> backup by u

Re: Backup of ACLs

2003-04-03 Thread Jon LaBadie
On Thu, Apr 03, 2003 at 01:15:32PM +0200, Dalton Hubert wrote: > Hi, > > we are thinking about using ACLs (extended attributes and access control > lists) on our file server, of which we make a full backup by using Amanda > every night. > > So my question concerning the ba

Re: Backup of ACLs

2003-04-03 Thread Anthony A. D. Talltree
Amanda manages backups using whatever native tool it's configured to use. You don't state what platform you're using I can't speculate as to an ACL-aware tool for it.

Re: Backup of ACLs

2003-04-03 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Thu, 3 Apr 2003 at 1:15pm, Dalton Hubert wrote > we are thinking about using ACLs (extended attributes and access control lists) > on our file server, of which we make a full backup by using Amanda every night. > > So my question concerning the backup is: > Can Amanda a

Re: Backup of ACLs

2003-04-03 Thread Roger Koot
On Thu, 2003-04-03 at 13:15, Dalton Hubert wrote: > Hi, > > we are thinking about using ACLs (extended attributes and access control lists) > on our file server, of which we make a full backup by using Amanda every night. > > So my question concerning the backup is: > C

Backup of ACLs

2003-04-03 Thread Dalton Hubert
Hi, we are thinking about using ACLs (extended attributes and access control lists) on our file server, of which we make a full backup by using Amanda every night. So my question concerning the backup is: Can Amanda also backup ACLs? Do i have to change something in my configuration? I have

Re: ACLs

2003-03-12 Thread Adam Smith
On Mon, Mar 10, 2003 at 11:30:14AM -0500, Mitch Collinsworth said: > > On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Smith wrote: > > > On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my > > ACLs along with my files? > > > > I am only experimenting with Aman

Re: ACLs

2003-03-10 Thread Mitch Collinsworth
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003, Adam Smith wrote: > On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my > ACLs along with my files? > > I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the > native tar utility, however tar does not support the bac

Re: ACLs

2003-03-10 Thread tobias . bluhm
Check your acl package to see if it supports recursive fetch/restore. If it does, just before dump time, do a recursive getfacl , redirected to a file. After a tar restore, you can use your listed acls file to restore the acls. I currently don't use this method ( on RH7.3) , but I

Re: ACLs

2003-03-10 Thread Joshua Baker-LePain
On Mon, 10 Mar 2003 at 10:25am, Adam Smith wrote > On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my > ACLs along with my files? > > I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the > native tar utility, however tar does not supp

ACLs

2003-03-09 Thread Adam Smith
On FreeBSD 5.0 with UFS2 + ACLs, what is my best method for backing up my ACLs along with my files? I am only experimenting with Amanda at this point, but it seems to use the native tar utility, however tar does not support the backing up of ACLs. Can anyone show me what I need to do? Regards

Re: problem with ACLs

2002-07-02 Thread JC Simonetti
On Tue, 2 Jul 2002 09:53:54 +0200 Guillaume Roger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have to save Windows (NTFS) files, but it seems that Amanda doesn't > keep the ACLs. Does someone know if there is a mean to do that, or is it > definitly not possible? > >

problem with ACLs

2002-07-02 Thread Guillaume Roger
Hi, I have to save Windows (NTFS) files, but it seems that Amanda doesn't keep the ACLs. Does someone know if there is a mean to do that, or is it definitly not possible? thanks Guillaume