Re: [rdiff-backup-users] ACLs

[Joe Steele]

On 7/19/2013 6:12 AM, Dominic Raferd wrote:
> On 19/07/2013 07:48, Grant wrote:
> > Will rdiff-backup save and version ACLs?  I'm hoping to use rsync
> > --fake-super to preserve ownership and permission info in ACLs and
> > then create an rdiff-backup repository from the rsynced files.
>
> Well it is certainly meant to, but I have always used it with the
> --no-acls option. If you don't use this option, it should save
> acls, and I presume it does...

Just note (from http://www.nongnu.org/rdiff-backup/features.html):

ACL and EA support: If rdiff-backup can find the pylibacl and 
pyxattr (mac version) modules, and if the file system supports 
these features, rdiff-backup will preserve Access Control Lists 
and user-level Extended Attributes. ACLs are not supported, 
however, on Mac OS X or Windows as those systems do not use 
standard POSIX.1e access controls.

--Joe