How to backup and restore permissions

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Environment

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server

Situation

Need to back up permissions
Permissions are incorrect because the cp command was ran without the argument -p for keep permissions

Resolution

For the example below, /usr will be used as the directory to backup and restore

Launch a terminal session and change to the parent of the directory that needs to be backed up
Type getfacl -R /usr > p.acl to create a permissions file called p.acl
Copy the p.acl to the server where you want to restore permissions on
Launch a terminal session and change to the directory of the p.acl file
type setfacl --restore=p.acl to restore the permissions

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