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can you share the script?
OK so it's fairly simple. You need to install the acl package (or whatever equivalent package contains getfacl/setfacl. Then you can use that to dump the data from an entire structure into a file (I also then bzip that). Then I backup all installed packages to help with a restore too.
So the script looks like:
To restore you change to the folder the backup was taken from, unbzip the file (or uncompress live via pipe) and use setfacl --restore=
thanks for getting back to me. :)
I am curious what kind of situation would screw up your /etc/ directory?
It's for backup purposes mainly. A lot of cloud backup providers don't store permissions.
So if I restore the data I can then restore the permissions after. So these are the folders I am backing up (with some exceptions in /var)
Ah I see. Thanks! The data and the attributes are stored separately.