Hi Greg,
I'm assuming the reason for this was that Robert's answer pretty much
covered it. Most backup tools still in development, and I'm including
rsync here, do support extended attributes, so you're covered when it
comes to ACL. The main question becomes if you need the backup itself to
be encrypted, and if yes you might want to look at alternatives to rsync.
I heard good things about Borg that Robert mentioned, Rowland seems to
use it, too. Personally, I currently use Restic which is similar to Borg
but supports S3 type storage.
Hope this helps.
-Viktor
On 14.03.2019 19:16, Gregory Sloop via samba wrote:> I'd like to re-flag this.
> I got a single reply - and wondered if there were any other approaches that
I haven't considered - or if someone wants to detail their process.
>
> Thanks again
> -Greg
>
>
> Backup is currently a pretty hot topic - but most of the discussion
I've seen has been around backup of the AD and not about files on a share.
>
> However, if I'm backing up the files in a Samba share [and lets assume
it's a Windows share, with the Windows ACLs] what's a good way to
capture the files, AND the ACL data so I could drop that data back on another
samba share, if disaster strikes and maintain the ACL data, as best possible.
Having the files alone is nice, but if it takes me 6 additional hours [or a
couple of days] to go through things and set/reset all the ACL's so people
have the right access, well that's a problem. [Or at least a problem I need
to plan for...]
>
> [And yes, I understand that the AD back-end-data has to stay consistent for
the ACLs to apply properly, but lets assume we're going to end up restoring
the files to another share on a different AD server in the same domain.]
>
> Does rsync work?
> Duplicati? [my favorite]
>
> Thoughts or suggestions?
> [A search didn't return much.]
>
> TIA
> -Greg