[H-GEN] Hardware Upgrade

[Robert Brockway]

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On Tue, 7 Jan 2003, Sarah Hollings wrote:

> Theoretically if you used an XFS filesystem, and SGI's xfsdump and
> restore, _and_ you use the posix acl's option when you compile your XFS
> kernel, you ought to be able to do backups that preserve ACL's.
>
> Then maybe you could use samba's ability to map ACL's and use xfsdump
> over an smbfs pipe to get ntfs backed up with acls.  In theory.  Maybe.
>   Does anyone know of this being acheived?

xfsdump will backup xfs ACLs as you note but I don't think this will
translate into ntfs ACLs backed up over samba (although It'd be cool if it
did work :)

Cheers,
	-Rob

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