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Re: Archiver supporting POSIX ACLs, file caps and xattrs?



On Tue, 05 Jun 2012 22:30:02 +0400, Konstantin Khomoutov wrote:

> I'd like to dump an ext3 filesystem which might uses xattrs and might
> use file capabilities.  I'd very much like to pipe its output to another
> machine (via netcat or some other means) which frames out fsarchiver [1]
> which requires lseeks() on the file it generates. So I'd like to use
> something like tar, cpio or pax.
> 
> Unfortunately, it seems that tar did not support any extended file
> properties yet [2], [3] even though it seems there are patches around
> [5].  Can anyone please suggest a tool which could do *full* archival of
> an ext3 filesystem and which supports dumping its output to stdout?

Have you considered "bsdtar/bsdcpio"? They're both packaged for Debian 
and seem to support acl and extended attributes (at least up to certain 
level):

https://github.com/libarchive/libarchive/wiki/TarExtendedAttributes

> Please Cc me as I'm not subscribed.

Sorry, I can't ;-(

Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón


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