Areca Backup [LSARC/2008/681 Self Review]

[Darren J Moffat]

David Zhang wrote:
> Bart Blanquart ??:
>> On 11/05/08 13:21, Mark A. Carlson wrote:
>>
>>> But if they need to learn all new tools when they first get here, they
>>> will not stay.
>>
>> If the tools they rely on don't work then somehow I don't think 
>> they'll be happy, either.
> Based on our testing, the tools *can work well* on Solaris.
> 
> It has some features which need to be enhanced, it just like our 
> project. There is no project which is prefect done.
> For a personal tool of backup, it restores users data correctly with 
> correct permission. We can enable/disable the encryption also.

Unless it supports ACLs it does NOT restore data with the correct 
permissions and that is a security bug and is not correct.

Unless it provides backup/restore for extended attributes that is *data 
loss* and that is unforgivable.

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Darren J Moffat