ACL Question .

[baiju_3]

Hi ,

I have copied a file system to one aonther using gtar . Now in the copy , some files does not have ACL set .

Is there any way to set the ACL for the new files, just by specifying the original file as a reference .


Thanks,
BL.

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

As far as I know tar type utilities do not retain ACL information. I would recommend running the commands to set ACL after untarring the file on the target machine.

SEP

[Jeff_Traigle]

Maybe by piping a getacl command to a setacl command...

getacl old_file | setacl -f - new_file

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Probably your least evil option is to use fbackup/frecover rather than gtar as fbackup will restore the ACL metadata unless specifically disabled via the -A option.

[Jeff_Traigle]

And fbackup/frecover could be used to instead of tar since it preserves the ACLs. tar and cpio don't.

[baiju_3]

Thanks.