Recovering file attributes from snapshot
Michael ODonnell
michael.odonnell at comcast.net
Tue Jul 3 12:03:02 EDT 2007
I'm in a situation where the ownerships/permissions in a
particular filesystem hierachy get changed by circumstances
beyond my control (*cough*Perforce*cough*) and I need to
force them back before I can use that hierachy. I'm prepared
to script a solution if necessary but I hate reinventing the
wheel so I wonder if this tool already exists. It'd basically
allow me to snapshot the desired attributes (ie. just certain
metadata items, not the contents) of an arbitrary set of
files/directories/symlinks/etc and then later allow me to
restablish those metadata by referring to the snapshot, but
leaving the data unchanged.
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