[Box Backup] Attributes not backed up correctly, also request to add ACL support

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Chris,

you wrote:
At least one Windows user of Box Backup
threatened to stop using it if I implemented full restore of
Windows ACLs.

Why?
It is a major feature if boxbackup could do that on windows machines.
Things like that seperate the smal backup packages from the big ones.
That is the same for the users, small and big companies.

And being a windows server administrator for a long time, my opinion on the=
 atributes would be: leave them out if it only creates errors, they are not=
 that important. Your statement of, at least you got your files back, is va=
lid for me.

Rgds Edo



--- On Mon, 8/10/09, Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com> wrote:

> From: Chris Wilson <chris@qwirx.com>
> Subject: Re: [Box Backup] Attributes not backed up correctly, also reques=
t to add ACL support
> To: boxbackup@boxbackup.org
> Date: Monday, August 10, 2009, 7:08 PM
> Hi Achim,
>=20
> On Wed, 5 Aug 2009, Achim wrote:
>=20
> > Hello Roy:
> >=20
> > On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:57:50 +0200, Roy <boxbackup@hostingbrothers.nl>
> > wrote:
> >> Local file xxx has different attributes to store
> file yyy.
> >> Is that a problem? Or is this a problem in the way
> that file attributes
> >> work under Windows?
> >=20
> > At the moment, it appears that some Windows attributes
> (hidden, archive,
> > system) are not backed up correctly by Box Backup
> R2549:
> >=20
> > Before backup
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> >
> D:\install\AJL\BACKUPTEST\CASES\Set_5-file-attributes>attrib
> > A=A0 SHR=A0
> =A0=A0=A0D:\install\AJL\BACKUPTEST\CASES\Set_5-file-attributes\all
> >=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> =A0=A0=A0D:\install\AJL\BACKUPTEST\CASES\Set_5-file-attributes\archive
> > A=A0=A0=A0H=A0 =A0 =A0
> D:\install\AJL\BACKUPTEST\CASES\Set_5-file-attributes\hidden
> > A=A0 =A0 R=A0
> =A0=A0=A0D:\install\AJL\BACKUPTEST\CASES\Set_5-file-attributes\readonly
> > A=A0 S=A0 =A0
> =A0=A0=A0D:\install\AJL\BACKUPTEST\CASES\Set_5-file-attributes\system
> >=20
> > After restore
> > =3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D=3D
> > D:\restore\Set_5-file-attributes>attrib
> > A=A0 =A0 R=A0
> =A0=A0=A0D:\restore\Set_5-file-attributes\all
> > A=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> D:\restore\Set_5-file-attributes\archive
> > A=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> D:\restore\Set_5-file-attributes\hidden
> > A=A0 =A0 R=A0
> =A0=A0=A0D:\restore\Set_5-file-attributes\readonly
> > A=A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0
> D:\restore\Set_5-file-attributes\system
> >=20
> > It appears that Read-Only works, but Hidden and System
> do not get backed
> > up/restored correctly.
>=20
> You are correct about that. Box Backup was designed to
> support Unix attributes, not Windows, and they are quite
> different.
>=20
> So how important are these attributes? If we ignored them
> entirely and didn't report compare errors if they differed,
> would that be satisfactory? (given that you got your data
> back anyway).
>=20
> > In addition, as I wrote in my e-mail "ACL support"
> from 11/04/2009 at 18:33, I wonder if it would be possible
> to add support for additional information on top of the
> POSIX ACL (which I haven't tested either, BTW).
>=20
> I have started work on Windows ACL support but it is not
> checked in, it causes backwards incompatibility for
> different client versions, and has several bugs that I have
> not had time to fix. At least one Windows user of Box Backup
> threatened to stop using it if I implemented full restore of
> Windows ACLs.
>=20
> Cheers, Chris.
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