fbackup and ACL

[Jens Ebert]

We are using fbackup. After mounting a filesystem from a remote NAS-server and adding this to the fbackup-graph, I get the following message for all files on the server:

fbackup(1205): Cannot get ACL information for file: /home/snap1/test.pdf ; optional entries are not backed up.

I found the option -A to use with fbackup, but this would mean that no ACL's are backed up at all, even for the local filesystems.

Any way to handle this situation?

[Mike Lacey]

Hi,

Is fbackup running as root?

Is there still a problem with the ACL if you run fbackup on the remote machine?

[Jens Ebert]

Yes, fbackup runs as root. The NAS-server is mounted by NFS. The NAS-server itself is a black box that supports various protocols to access it's disks. So there is no way to run fbackup on the NAS-server itself and I guess that the NAS-server does not have ACL's on it's filesystem at all.

I would like to see a possibility to back up ACL's on the server that runs fbackup but to exclude them on the NFS-mounted filesystem from the NAS-server.