Re: Re: hdup2 issues

Miek Gieben <[email protected]> Wed, 4 May 2005 14:09:26 +0200
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[On 04 May, @13:51, DJB wrote in "[hdup-user] Re: hdup2 issues ..."]
> >The only dirty way I see, would be to also store all directory
> >permissions along side the archive, by using a shell script or
> >something.
>=20
> That sounds like a very practical workaround we can use.
>=20
> I wonder quickly a shell script (or perl/python/ruby script) can be=20
> written to do this based on the hdup config file...

that should be fairly easy, but the main problem is that these
kind of solution tend to stick (i.e. they are very hard to remove
once they are included in hdup).

> Maybe it can be even be packaged with hdup2 as a utility until a=20
> more permanent solution is implemented.
>=20
> What do you think?

I'll give it a shot, but it will be a) unsupported by me and b) will
not work when restoring,

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