Recovering file attributes from snapshot

[Flaherty, Patrick]

I've seen examples where people used getfacl and setfacl to backup their
acls (hint: these programs work on non-acl files as well). 

google says http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/476 was the
article I read. The comments are where the important bits are.

Patrick


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Subject: Recovering file attributes from snapshot


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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