I imagine after we get away from NFS and go to pure CIFS, we'll be moving our backups to full NT based (to keep any/all CIFS ACLs' intact with out files).
If it makes you feel better, we are able to store out UNIX perms with the ACLs on some of these NT backup vendor's products (ask your sales/marketing people for more details).
Also, I imagine that your implimentation of dump does not allow for single file (or single directory) restorations does it?
Actually, it does. We can restore any file or subdirectory on a dump tape, as well as the ACLs that go with it.
I realize that there are a couple products out there to that handle ACLS/UFS permissions backup & restoration via NPDM, but we are already running three backup variants right now and adding yet another is just not feasible.
Understandable. But if you change your mind, we'll leave the light on for you. ;)
Stephen Manley FS Recovery Engineer