Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Re: Backup of a smbmounted partition and ACLs

[Ben Escoto]

On Tue, 14 Oct 2003 09:46:57 +0200 frache <address@hidden> wrote:
> it seems not to work with smb mounted partition. ACLs are not restored. 
> Probably smbmount doesn't export ACLs.

Do the standard versions of getfacl and setfacl work on them?  If not
there is little hope for rdiff-backup, since rdiff-backup uses same
syscalls like acl_get_file().

> >I have no idea if this will work on other platforms.  When you start
> >rdiff-backup 0.13.x there is a verbose screen which will say if ACLs
> >and other features are active on each side.
> 
> Ok, I will try this version.
> 
> Is the difference only in verbosing informations, or does 1.3 better 
> process ACLs ?

There is no acl support before 0.13.x.

> It were fine if we could use rdiff-backup as smbclient, it could then 
> use smbcacls to save/restore ACLs. And maybe use 
> "-uworkgroup\username%password //server1/share1 filename" with smb file 
> server, like "address@hidden:://path/filename" :-)

Well send me the patch and I'll consider it :-)


-- 
Ben Escoto

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