On Thu, Aug 26, 2010 at 11:56 AM, Tim Nelson <tnelson at rockbochs.com> wrote: [snip] > > ACL's do indeed look like the method I'd prefer. Are ACL's part of the filesystem (dependent on ext{2,3,4} etc?) or are they part of the file/inode? My primary reason for asking is I'd like to know if when backing up this data, will the ACL's be included in the backup or will they be lost? > > --Tim tar and rsync both have ACL preservation options. I don't run many ACL filesystems, but those I do use backup fine with tar.