On 2/4/08, Martin Simmons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >>>>> On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 00:17:29 -1000, Hydro Meteor said:
> >
> > I wonder what would need to be done in the Bacula source to properly
> capture
> > and restore ACL metadata on file systems mounted to Mac OS X Leopard (or
> > Tiger for that matter) operating systems?
> >
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
>
> It looks like Apple's acl_get_file does not support the ACL_TYPE_DEFAULT
> and
> ACL_TYPE_ACCESS types of query. Someone else has enjoyed this problem
> too:
>
> http://xarchiver.blogspot.com/2007/04/mac-os-x-acls-added.html
Martin, thank you for pointing this out. I sent an email to Rob Braun (who
is the author of the page on the blog your URI links to) to ask him if his
statements made in April 2007 (about ACL API discrepancies on Mac OS X Tiger
10.4) continue to apply now on Mac OS X Leopard 10.5 ... I have not received
a response from him yet but if I do receive one I will share it on this
mailing list. One way or another, there ought to be a way to get to the
bottom of what Apple has done (differently) with POSIX ACLs and then
hopefully they can be incorporated into Bacula. Many of us want to use
Bacula for back up and restore purposes (including very importantly that
Bacula is open source / GPL) on Mac OS X and we do not want to become
dependent on Apple's closed-source Time Machine software. Time Machine is
probably going to be fine for mass consumers but for those of us running
professional systems on OS X Server we will want control of our file system
backup and recovery with Bacula.
Cheers,
Hydro
__Martin
>
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