On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 2:26 PM, Carlos E. R.
On 2016-04-12 18:58, Greg Freemyer wrote:
On Tue, Apr 12, 2016 at 9:02 AM, Carlos E. R. <> wrote:
I'll expand. Will user and group permissions be kept on the backup copy made by a plain user? Or will they be changed to be owned by the user doing the backup?
I believe they are changed, so the answer to my question is "not quite".
Untested, but logically the backup should maintain the correct data assuming the backup tool understands ACLs.
If the backup is somekind of archive, it should work. But if the backup is something like rsync, which creates identical files on the destination, I have my doubts.
note rsync has a "--acls" arg which is supposed to copy the ACLs to the desitination. But I doubt it would work perfectly if not run as root.
15 years ago when I was experimenting with ACLs, "star" was a modified version of tar that groked ACLs in the backup set.
The issue is the restore. I suspect only root can do a restore and get everything set correctly.
Yes, I think so.
which is why I suspect rsync will fail. It is effectively doing a "restore" of the folder structure at the destination. Greg -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org