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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