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Hi all,

I just discovered rdiff-backup and I am trying go get it to synch while
preserving ACL's. I have 2 machine's running FC4 and on both machines I
mounted the data partition with the acl option.

Hoever when I do something similar like:

rdiff-backup --never-drop-acls /etc/samba/data root < at > backup::/etc/data/samba

It stops and complains that the remote filesystem does not support
ACL's, but like I said it does support ACL's. When I omit the
--never-drop-acls option it works just fine. Afterwards I am able to set
ACL's on the backup machine using setfacl.

Ideas anyone?

Thanks!

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2ML Computer Services
Jonathan Salomon

2male / Jonathan Salomon <joni < at > 2male.com>
wrote the following on Fri, 25 Nov 2005 15:27:42 +0100

I just discovered rdiff-backup and I am trying go get it to synch while
preserving ACL's. I have 2 machine's running FC4 and on both machines I
mounted the data partition with the acl option.

Hoever when I do something similar like:

rdiff-backup --never-drop-acls /etc/samba/data root < at > backup::/etc/data/samba

It stops and complains that the remote filesystem does not support
ACL's, but like I said it does support ACL's. When I omit the
--never-drop-acls option it works just fine. Afterwards I am able to
set ACL's on the backup machine using setfacl.

Try running with -v4, it'll tell you which sides it thinks support
ACLs. Do you have the pylibacl python module installed on both sides?


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Ben Escoto

I just discovered rdiff-backup and I am trying go get it to synch while
preserving ACL's. I have 2 machine's running FC4 and on both machines I
mounted the data partition with the acl option.

Hoever when I do something similar like:

rdiff-backup --never-drop-acls /etc/samba/data root < at > backup::/etc/data/samba

It stops and complains that the remote filesystem does not support
ACL's, but like I said it does support ACL's. When I omit the
--never-drop-acls option it works just fine. Afterwards I am able to
set ACL's on the backup machine using setfacl.


Try running with -v4, it'll tell you which sides it thinks support
ACLs. Do you have the pylibacl python module installed on both sides?

Thanks! That did the trick! :)

I like this script!

Jonathan