Linux extended attributes and ACL

[ByrneEmpire]

I am getting an exception on my backup jobs because "Failed to read extended attributes and ACL for /."  From what I have been reading this refers to SELinux versions.  I am not using a SELinux version.  Is there a way to tell Backup Exec not to read the attributes and ACLs?

[SPR_TSE]

This is a Unix/Linux issue; the exception is a warning and your backup should proceed correctly, noting that access control lists and extended attributes won't be captured. However, ACLs and extended attributes can be enabled for the file system as follows:

Edit /etc/fstab and update the fourth field from either “default” or “rw” to “rw,acl,user_xattr”. Then remount the file system as “mount –o remount <device name>” (Example “mount –o remount /dev/sdb1”).

The above would only be seen if these are able to be disabled within a given file system.

For more information on ACLs and extended attributes, please go through the document below;

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/enterprise/RHEL-5-manual/Deployment_Guide-en-US/ch-acls.html
http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/cert-system/admin/7.2/Authorization.996872.html

[Rejean]

I have the same issue using Symantec Ghost suite 1.x (ghost.exe 8.2 in a dos shell) .... I have not yet tryed it with Symantec Ghost suite 2.x (ghost 11.x)... I haven't found any info about this that tell me it will work or not.

Ward, I think you failed to understart that this is not a warning but a FAILED then it crash.
"Failed to read extended attributes and ACL for /."  then the backup stop, failed, crash... ;)

I have seen some kind of solution at
http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-December/057825.html
but it's not easy and then it would be better for Ghost to support this SElinux stuff in ext3 filesystem since all the latest linux have it.


thanks if anyone has any info.

Message Edited by Regge on 07-03-200703:18 PM