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List:       bacula-users
Subject:    Re: [Bacula-users] non-accessible Windows files / sources for
From:       Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo () wpkg ! org>
Date:       2008-03-31 12:56:08
Message-ID: 47F0DF68.7080507 () wpkg ! org
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Bruno Friedmann schrieb:
> Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>> Traditionally, in UNIX, a root user can access any file in the system 
>> without doing anything special.
>>
>> This contrasts with Windows, where even Administrator user can't read 
>> files for which he doesn't have access permissions (i.e., a file with 
>> all permissions removed).
>>
> Postscriptum : be carefull, there's some users that remove also "System Account"
> and with this, there no possible backup.
> A client of mine do this on it's filesystem and was crying after having delete his file
> that we can restore them ( We previously warn him about that fact ).
> 
> In windows world even God could not be God :-)

Actually, I wanted to see how hard would it be to incorporate this 
feature in rsync, which uses Cygwin.

As it turns out, a recent Cygwin snapshot allows Cygwin-based programs 
to open such files where Administrator is not allowed due to lack of 
necessary permissions:

See the whole thread here:

http://cygwin.com/ml/cygwin/2008-03/threads.html#00662


So, no need to checkout Bacula's SVN anymore ;)


-- 
Tomasz Chmielewski
http://wpkg.org

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