Save and restore linux user permissions.

• Control, detect and recover from unintended user permissions changes
• Restore user permissions when recovering backup files from sources not supporting them.

Additionally, support backup of local files into external storages

• Define files to backup
• Generate commands for different tools and targets (rsync, cloud, NAS)

Existing tools like getfacl and setfacl were not fitting for my current needs.

• TODO: Scan filesystem and gather all possible information (see getfacl)
• TODO: investigate if supporting mac is also possible
• TODO: Create permissions backup file using a configuration
• TODO: Verify permissions backup against local filesystem
  • TODO: Detect and report file deletions in FS
  • TODO: Detect and report file modifications in FS
  • TODO: Detect and report new entries for backup
• TODO: restore create permissions backup into local file system
• TODO: enable user to define root folder to backup
• TODO: whitelist files and folders inside root folder
• TODO: blacklist files and folders inside root folder
• TODO: define targets for backups (Method/type and URI/URL)
• TODO: Create/Run backup commands for different backup targets
  • TODO: rsync to target with linux permissions support
  • TODO: rsync to target without linux permissions support
  • TODO: to AWS Simple Storage Service (S3)
  • TODO: to DigitalOcean Spaces Object Storage
  • TODO: to Azure Blob storage
  • TODO: to CGP Google Storage
• TODO: Consider implementing a backup restore procedure

• Separate configuration files for different folders
• Whitelist folders and files for processing
• exclude specific files and folders
• Define a default user
• Define default permissions for regular files folders
• Only documents deviating values from the defaults