Dear Marco,
In message <loom.20120102t163316-...@post.gmane.org> you wrote:
>
> > It appears that bacula does not save, and thus cannot restore, such
> > file capabilities.
> >
> Thats not really true. I did some searching on google to find out
> how these so called POSIX file capabilities are implemented.
> Its also quite new code it went into Linux 2.6.24 in may last year or so.
Hm... v2.6.24 is four years old... Maybe you mean v2.6.34,
and May 2010?
> Yup add acl = yes and xattr = yes to your fileset and you should
> be set to backup most of the future options. Bacula is one of
Hm... I have these settings in the FileSet definition:
Include {
Options {
signature = MD5
xattrsupport = yes
aclsupport = yes
}
File = /usr/bin
}
When restoring, the file attributes were lost anyway.
Is there any other place I need to give extra options? When
restoring?
> the few Open Source backup products (probably the only)
> which has very broad support for all these kind of exotic
> acl's, extended attributes and extensible attributes. I had to
> write everything from scratch as no other projects address all
> know interfaces. So we are quite good in doing the exotic stuff.
Guess why I've been using bacula for so long...
And btw: thanks :-)
> We already found out that Novell uses extended attributes for
> storing additional access control lists on there NSS filesystem.
> And those also backup and restore fine with the generic xattr code.
I'm just a user of bacula, no developer of it, so I don't care much
about the implementation or the interface. As long as the
functionality is present and working I'm fine with it.
> > Note that this is probably a bigger problem - it appears that
> > neither cpio nor tar nor rsync etc. can deal with file capabilities.
> > At the moment I don't know how to create a 100% correct backup of a
> > plain vanilla Linux root filesystem...
> >
> If you look at the linked webpage you will see that rsync and cpio
> have support for extended attributes and that is used to copy these
> posix file capabilities.
In the linked PDF file I cannot find a reference to cpio or rsync.
But rsync does indeed work as needed when using -X. Sorry, I missed that.
The cpio in Fedora 16 does not appear to support this.
> So I would say give the xattr=yes a go on your install and see
> if it works for these attributes. You could create a test fileset
> with a known file with a posix file capability and run the bacula-fd
> with a debug level of 100 and watch for xattr save messages.
Done that, but I could not see any.
This is with bacula as distributed with Fedora 16, most recent
updates installed:
bacula-client-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-common-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-console-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-console-bat-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-director-common-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-director-mysql-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-docs-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-storage-common-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
bacula-storage-mysql-5.0.3-13.fc16.x86_64
Anything ales I could look for?
Thanks in advance.
Best regards,
Wolfgang Denk
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