On May 29, 2009, at 7:49 PM, "Joseph L. Casale" <JCasale@activenetwerx.com
wrote:
Yeah, I thought of using the MS reskit utils as I have logon scripts which already make use of them and through those I see you can backup acls to a txt file but the thought of restoring some of the data and then selectively applying a backed up acl would be cumbersome :(
This isn’t looking easy. I *could* setup Samba on te remote server and establish a vpn but I have to say all my experiences with Samba have been less than what I would consider, enterprisable and that could very well be my simple extreme lack of knowledge with it.
I know it isn't CentOS related, but OpenSolaris has a CIFS server and ZFS has native support for Windows ACLs, maybe that will work?
Otherwise you could use iSCSI as a possibility which would allow you to do block level incremental/differential backups with the right software package.
Depends on connectivity and requirements.
-Ross