Heupink, Mourik Jan C.
2003-Aug-14 09:31 UTC
[Samba] RE: Samba vs. Windows : significant difference in timestamphandli ng?
thanks very much for your kind and fast assistance! greetings from holland. mourik jan> -----Original Message----- > From: Dragan Krnic [mailto:dkrnic@lycos.com] > Sent: Thursday, August 14, 2003 11:19 > To: mourik jan c heupink > Cc: samba@lists.samba.org > Subject: Re: Samba vs. Windows : significant difference in > timestamphandling? > > > > and (now that i have your attention... :)) what > > software do you use to backup your reisersf/acls > > partitions? > > Excellent question. I use tar, but before I start it > I do a "getfacl --skip-base -R ." and save the output > in a file that is bound to be the first on tape. When > I restore such a tarball I do "setfacl --restore=" > and all the ACLs are restored in a fell swoop. It is > unbelievable how much faster both operations execute > on a reiserfs as compared to any other fs (2 orders of > magnitude faster). > > If you do a partial restore, you don't usually need > explicit setfacl because the newly restored files > inherit the correct ACLs from the parent dir, except > if they themselves have additional irregular ACLs. > > Still, I'd rather the ACLs were singly backed up and > restored, which according to a samba guy is what Sun > does in their version of tar - each ACLs-infected file > has 2 entries, the first contains only the ACLs, which > an ACL-aware tar reads and uses to restore the original > ACLs, and the second is the normal tar of the file. An > ACL-unaware tar just overwrites the ACLs data > with "the" data. > > For smb clients (WinDoze boxen) I use smbclient's > tarmode extension and am about to add full ACLs support > although in most cases all of the ACLs on an M$ system > are totally predictable so backing them up is kinda > redundant, but every now and then someone complains > about it so let's get it behind us once. > > > as what i read was that you can use basically any > > backup program to backup the data, but usually the > > acls are not backed up. i heard amanda is supposed > > to be good? > > I don't know what amanda does. > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Get advanced SPAM filtering on Webmail or POP Mail ... Get Lycos Mail! > http://login.mail.lycos.com/r/referral?aid=27005 >
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