Beemo BeeBox 503 - Files Attributes Management (ACL)

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Chapter 12

Files attributes management (ACL)

NOTE : The operations described in this chapter are for system administrators and advan-

ced users, and only concern secured machines running a Microsoft Windows NT or more

advanced operating system. There are no changes required for secure machines based on

another platform.

REMARK : For more information on ACLs, go to the following link :

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_Control_List.

The Data Safe Restore solution by default does not save the ACLs of the ﬁles on

Microsoft Windows operating systems. If you want to maintain your security strategy on the ﬁles backed up by the

Beemo appliance, you can enable the backup of these rights by carrying out the following operations :

1. Log on as an administrator to the machine whose user access rights you want to back up.

2. Stop the application (or the service if you have followed the recommendations of Beemo Technologie) Data

Safe Restore Client.

3. In the Microsoft Windows ﬁle explorer, go to the

conf subdirectory of the

Data Safe Restore Clientinstallation folder.

4. Using the editor of your choice, add the line

acl=1 to the end of the ﬁle config located in the conf subdirec-

tory.

NOTE : You are advised to make a backup copy of the original config ﬁle to prevent the

backup from stopping to work in case of an error while editing the ﬁle.

5. Once you have edited the ﬁle, restart the application or service Data Safe Restore Client. The ﬁles saved on

this machine now include the ACLs in their attributes.

REMARK : The implementation of ACL management signiﬁcantly slows down the backup

process, due to the increase in disk access operations for ﬁle security rights.

Once these changes are made, the steps to be followed to secure and restore the machine data are identical to those

of a traditional backup. The restored ﬁles will have the rights deﬁned for them at the time the machine was backed

up, to which will be added the rights inherited from the directory to which they are restored.

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